James Tauber's Blog 2006/09
New Pyworks
As I'm adding more committers to my open source projects, I decided it might be worth getting a dedicated mac mini for pyworks.org rather than sharing it with my other sites.
So I ordered another mini through macminicolo and it's up and running. I haven't switched over to using it yet, though.
A new version of subversion is out and new versions of Python and Trac are due out soon.
I think I'll wait for Python 2.5 and Trac 0.10 and then make the move.
by jtauber : Created on Sept. 15, 2006 : Last modified Sept. 15, 2006 : 4 comments (permalink)
Nelson James Performance Tonight
Just got back from a party where Nelson James performed. It was our first performance in front of an audience (as opposed to a TV studio crew) and was a lot of fun. We played three songs, Noise, When You're Holding Me and the original piano version of You Me Us We (a dance version of which Nelson and I recently finished recording at the soundbaker studio with Rob Agostini producing).
If we had a drummer and bassist to occasionally back us, I think we could do a lot more of our songs, as well as a few covers. Regarding the latter, I can now play Ben Folds Five's 'Underground' and totally annoy my family with how often I play it :-)
by jtauber : Created on Sept. 9, 2006 : Last modified Sept. 11, 2006 : 4 comments (permalink)
Surge in Poincare Bookmarking
Prior to this month, about 5 people had bookmarked my Poincare Project on del.icio.us. Then in the last week, 80 people have bookmarked it!
I better get back to working on it! :-)
UPDATE (2006/09/09): The source of recent interest seems to be a post to Ars Mathematica and a post to reddit. Not sure which came first but the former lead to a couple of hundred hits and the latter a couple of thousand.
by jtauber : Created on Sept. 8, 2006 : Last modified Sept. 9, 2006 : 0 comments (permalink)
French Translation of Pyjamas Website
In a first for me, I got an offer to translate one of my open source project sites into another language. So thanks to Gerard Labadie, http://pyjamas.pyworks.org is available in French as well as English.
by jtauber : Created on Sept. 5, 2006 : Last modified Sept. 5, 2006 : Categories pyjamas : 1 comment (permalink)
Poincare Update
I do plan to get back to writing about the mathematics behind the Poincaré Conjecture. But I thought it remiss of me not to mention here the recent developments stemming from Grigory Perelman being awarded and declining the Fields Medal for his solution.
You can read more about it here:
- Maths genius declines top prize (BBC)
- MANIFOLD DESTINY: A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it. (New Yorker)
Meanwhile I'll get back to the mathematics of it. I think the next installments will be about coordinate systems and the notion of a metric on a manifold.
UPDATE: next post
by jtauber : Created on Sept. 5, 2006 : Last modified Sept. 5, 2006 : Categories poincare_project : 2 comments (permalink)