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Making Maya’s Python palatable

Maya’s python interface leaves something to be desired, as it seems like a straight port of their existing MEL interface with no additional thought put into designing a nice OO interface. For example, here is how to set or get the ‘radius’ attribute of a sphere:

s = cmds.sphere()
r = cmds.sphere(s, query=True, radius=True)
cmds.sphere(s, edit=True, radius=10)

Nasty.
So, here [...]

Posted 03 March 2009 † Porges § code ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Annoyances with Intrepid

After having just installed Intrepid on a friend’s PC last night:

I ran into this bug (here’s the fix)
ATi’s dual monitor setup is still too hard (here’s how to do it)
ATi’s drivers can’t do compiz and video at the same time (Install the latest drivers to fix it)

Posted 27 February 2009 † Porges § commentary ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Parametrizing Monoids and Monads

Dan Piponi’s latest post “Beyond Monads” has prompted some wonderment (and forehead-slapping). For example:
How did we all miss that before?
—Peaker
The answer (of course!) is that while we might have, they didn’t. For example, Edward Kmett’s category-extras package has had Control.Monad.Indexed available for use in Haskell since early last year, while the concept for its [...]

Posted 16 February 2009 † Porges § code ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,