Archive for month: March, 2009

PyGameSF meetup Tuesday March 24th 10th 6pm @ Main San Francisco Public Library

18 March, 2009 (10:44) | Games, Meetup, Pygame, Pyglet, Pyton, Talk | By: Harry Tormey

This months PyGameSF meet up is at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will be reconviening to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.  This month’s presentations are: Casey Duncan:  Going Low-level, A peek under the [...]

Lepton particle engine 0.9a released

16 March, 2009 (01:37) | Games, Programming, Release | By: Harry Tormey

Casey Duncan has just released version 0.9a of the py-lepton particle engine. Change list: Fix reference leaks in particle emission and domain generate methods  
Plane domains are now proper half-space geometries so they support __contains__, which means they can be used with the Collector controller.
Implement Point domain.
Implement arbitrarily orientable Disc, Cylinder and Cone domains.  
Add tunnel example.
Implement [...]

An Interview with Alex Holkner

6 March, 2009 (20:41) | Games, Interview, Pygame, Pyglet, Pyton | By: Harry Tormey

Last month I interviewed both Alex Holkner the main author of Pyglet and Rene Dudfield a contributor to Pygame, you can listen to a recording of the interview with Alex here.  The interviews deal with their respective work on Pygame and Pyglet, some of the challenges they faced developing these libraries, what they are currently working on,  plans for the future and their experiences [...]

Booking a conference room in the San Francisco public Library

5 March, 2009 (11:02) | Meetup, Talk | By: Harry Tormey

One of the big challenges with running a meetup in San Francisco is finding a venue that can accomidate your group. In the case of PyGamSF our requirements were as follows:  The venue  should cost nothing (PyGameSF is not for profit).
The space should be able to accomidate between 6 and 15 people.
It should be quite enough to record our talks. 
It should [...]