Phil Hassey
About: I created Galcon, pgu, and tinypy. I'd like to connect with folks involved in game development, healthcare, web development, business intelligence, and anyone who plays Galcon :)
Blog Posts
The Galcon Prize: Results!
--Hey, The Galcon Prize contest is finally over! Congrats to mewo for his great entry! You can get the results package here. This includes all ent...
The Galcon Prize — almost over!
--If you haven’t put an entry together for the contest, you’ve got just a couple days left I’ll be doing the final judging Monday...
tinypy at pycon …
--Hey, So .. I’m thinking about proposing a talk about tinypy at pycon. Not quite sure what I’d want to say about it. So, here’s ...
The Galcon Prize: mid-contest results
--“The Galcon Prize is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to improve the Galcon rankings system! Galcon is a winner-takes-all multi-player game for 2-...
Healthcare job opening for a pythonic PHP coder …
--Hey - my healthcare business is hiring! Yay! We’re looking for someone who lives in western New York, is a pythonic PHP coder, and enjoys co...
The “Galcon Prize” Coding Contest
--Hey, so I’ve never been feeling overly smart about how my rankings system works. And quite a few of you have expressed interest in hacking o...
Watermelons for the iPhone / iPod Touch
--Watermelons is the ultimate fruit rescue mission game! The local watermelon tree has gone berserk and is producing fresh watermelons at an amazing ...
Galcon color-blind Test
--Hey, I’m trying to get Galcon-iphone to work for the color-blind population Here’s the colors I’m thinking about using. If you...
Comparing python to C …
--Well, I’m about 1/2 done with adding multi-players to Galcon-iphone. I figured I’d stop for five minutes and note down some things I n...
not wanting to be left out …
--$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head 269Â Â ls 253Â Â cd 18...
The Canadian Invasion .. and MORE!
--The only bit I remember from that conversation is all the stuff about Canadian global domination. Let me tell you, if Mike Fletcher has his way, ...
Galcon + iPhone = AWESOME
--Hey, I’ve just finished porting Galcon to the iPhone and it’s now in the App Store! You can read about it here! I don’t *really*...
iGalcon - port of Galcon to the iphone - part 1
--I’m going to blog a bit about my experience porting Galcon to the iphone. It’s not overly python related, so I won’t send all th...
Learning python by reinventing wheels …
--I’ve learned a lot about python by implementing tinypy. Today I was thinking over my re-work of classes, objects, and inheritance in tinypy ...
Dear lazyweb: tell me about python telephony ..
--I’m looking at doing some telephony work in the next half year. I’ve read a bit about asterisk and it looks like it has come a long w...
meta-methods: python vs tinypy
--Man, could I have even thought of a title that sounds dustier? It just screams “Get ready for the boring lecture of the year folks.” ...
Phil’s pyGame Utilities (pgu) project up for grabs!
--Well, I developed pgu several years ago .. and I’ve sort of moved onto other things. And now I really feel like I’m not doing a great...
How to run an open source project?
--If I were going to OSCON, I’d certainly go to this talk. But I’m not planning on it, so … … So I’ve got that tinypy ...
tinypy: did i mention metaprogramming?
--For the sake of this post, I’m going to pretend to know what metaprogramming* is. Yeah, so tinypy** totally has that. At least, since the...
did someone say “galcon in the browser” ??
--Hmn .. maybe someone did .. Yep, that’s python+pygame alright ..
tinypy.org website launched!
--Yay! Go to tinypy.org and spend the rest of your day basking in the glow of the new tinypy website! Yipee! Thanks to everyone who told me not...
project hosting … (for tinypy?!)
--So I’m getting the feeling I should host tinypy somewhere greater than just in my blog. What a pity, the blog suited me so well. I dunno, I...
tinypy - I need more mentors for Google SOC!
--If you’re *not* in school, interested in tinypy, and want to help out, you can become a mentor! I’m working via the PSF to get tinypy ...
PyCon2009 Gong Show!!
--So I thought of an idea for pycon2009 … A GONG SHOW! Here’s how it would work: People sign up for 5 minute slots. A panel of 3 judges...
Fun with the OLPC!
--Yesterday and today I worked with Mike Fletcher and had a great time porting a couple of my games to the OLPC Watermelons Elephants (pic taken w...
Fun with the OLPC!
--Yesterday and today I worked with Mike Fletcher and had a great time porting a couple of my games to the OLPC Watermelons Elephants (pic taken w...
To the PyPy folks: your error messages ROCK!!
--SyntaxError’: …… ‘(pypy.translator.flex.main:9)some_strange_function_ which_will_never_be_called’ True dat, yo!
tinypy for Google Summer of Code!
--If you’re a student who’s been following the tinypy project and you’re interested in working on it for the Google SOC, the PSF is...
Galcon at PyCon Tournament Goodies
--We had a great tournament at pycon2008! We also fit in some “Rustic Classics” (a set of oldschool games like pac-man made for multi-pl...
Galcon Tournament at pycon!
--There will be a Galcon Tournament at PyCon on Saturday night from 8:00pm - 11:00pm in Ballroom II. Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player gal...
Galcon Tournament at pycon!
--There will be a Galcon Tournament at PyCon on Saturday night from 8:00pm - 11:00pm in Ballroom II. Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player gal...
Galcon Tournament at pycon!
--There will be a Galcon Tournament at PyCon on Saturday night from 8:00pm - 11:00pm in Ballroom II. Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player gal...
tinypy sprint at pycon!
--I’m going to pycon next week, yah! I’m planning on sprinting on PyGame on Flash. However, if someone wants to sprint on tinypy, just ...
tinypy 1.0 - MIT License and swell OpenGL demo :)
--Its been a long two months getting this project to the 1.0 state. Here it is: tinypy1.zip | tinypy.tgz | svn://www.imitationpickles.org/...
tinypy 64k - nearing 1.0 - and it really does fit in 64k!
--Updates - I’ve got it all fitting in 64k*. It’s amazing how many functions that don’t do anything you can come across if you loo...
tinypy 64k - now with built in garbage collection
--Yay - I got incremental garbage collection added into tinypy. It took a good deal of troubleshooting, but thanks to valgrind (and thanks to the pe...
64k tinypy - garbage collection is tough
--For giggles I tried to write a garbage collector to replace libgc in tinypy. I tried doing a tri-color incremental collector. I couldn’t ge...
tinypy 64k - bootstrapped!
--So.. hey, it’s done. Basically. tinypy is a 64k implementation of a subset of python. It can bootstrap itself into a single executable tha...
64k tinypy - parsing woes
--I’ve been out of town for the last few days, so I haven’t done much to tinypy. However, I have realized that my current “dumbpar...
Searching for a electronic document / data / business intelligence tool
--Hey all you open source folks out there .. I’m looking for an electronic document / data / business intelligence tool. Something where I can...
64k tinypy - now with list comprehensions and fancy arguments
--Well, I got two of my favorite python features added in - list comprehensions [x*x for x in range(1,5)] and fancy arguments test(1,2,a=3,*c,**d). A...
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I hope to find time soon to try tinypy on Altera's Nios II embedded processor.