...and I have a cold! Hmm nearly a month since the last post. The web server that powers this site was out for a couple of days - sorry about that. Beyond my control - sorry.

Have been very busy hacking - have a look at the statistics link and tag cloud link in the sidebar. Most of the code has been kicking around for ages. It has taken some time for me to settle into this new laptop and get everything organised. Python stuff tended to live on a mobile HD. So has been the usual mix of Firedrop2, playing IronPython and LDBackup.

However the impending arrival of a replacement for the family PC meant hunting around for any forgotten code and sure enough I dug up a few things from 2 years ago written in gasp CSharp. One is a cool RSS screensaver which surprised me by actually still working! The logging GUI/lib was quite good - will probably keep that one up to date. Most interesting was my little tribute( ) to Kirbybase (a cool python-ic flat csv file db module). Kirby was the name of the writers dog so naturally my attempt was called Dandybase.

Dandybase is a pure .Net database (or at least will be. It is possible to run some of the pure python mini-db solutions in IronPython but for performance I still believe a CSharp version to be best. Dandybase even had some Unit tests which had 2 failures. I could not resist making them pass - fairly easy too. It is almost close to being functional enough for the 'next project'. It should work with IronPython as it sticks to standard .Net collections and strings.

Posted by Davy Mitchell on 2007-07-03 22:40:28.
Categories: Python, IronPython Tags : LDBackup CSharp Database
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