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Code of the Day: Playblast Window

Playblast Window 0.0.2 script by Seamus O’Hearn: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/camera/c/playblast-window Playblast Window 0.0.2is a simple script UI for creating specific playblast options.

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Code of the Day: PAIE

PAIE 1.3.2 script by Jakob Welner: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/paie PAIE 1.3.2 (Python Attribute Import/Export) is a script for exporting animation and pose information to a file, and importing them onto the same (or similar) character.

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Book Review: More Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner

One thing I always want to do is try and look at programming from a fresh pair of eyes. While I am certainly not an absolute beginner it is sometimes interesting to see how a development book tries to instill the core concepts of programming into the new reader. In More Python Programming for the […]

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Python Design Patterns

There is an intersting talk about Python design patterns at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KZx8bATBFs&feature=related from Google Students. I really liked the comment that “Design Patterns must be studied in the context on the language in which they’ll get implemented” as some patterns can be change or disappear entirely if there is a better way to do something that […]

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Book Review: Python Developer Handbook

A worthwhile tome of knowledge, Python Developer’s Handbook by Andre Lessa is a good introduction to Python in all forms. While it does not deal with Python 3.X it still gives quite a lot of examples about how complete python is as a language, and how useful it is for tools. As one of the […]

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Coding Style and Stylecop

How important is coding style? This debate is something that really draws out the “artist” and critic in every programmer. In many ways the style of writing code is similar to writing poetry, and what makes the subject so hotly debated is that the beauty of the code, sentence or poem is all in the […]