Ian Lewis Ian Lewis is a web developer living in Tokyo Japan. His current interests are in Django, python, alternative databases and rapid web application development.
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python-openvcdiff and Cython

I started a project today to implement an interface for the open-vcdiff using Cython. I'm not a C++ master and the Python C libraries are pretty new to me but I managed to expose and implement a few methods of the VCDiffEncoder class. The hardest part so far has been trying to figure out how to use the C++ standard library types like std::string. I'm also not sure how I can interface with pyt[...]

Wanted: Dictionary program for Windows/Linux

I have wanted a good dictionary application that supports a number of dictionaries/dictionary formats for studying Japanese but I've been sort of frustrated that there is no single application that does what I would like. I have looked mostly at stardict and epwing because they are closest to the type of dictionary I want. Specifically I have the following requirements: 1. It must work in [...]