script to delete all iphone sms messages

my coworker, dan smith, recently expressed frustration with apple’s lack of bulk message deletion in the iphone sms app.  sometimes our monitoring scripts go a little crazy and send hundreds of emails to us when things go wrong and its extremely tedious to delete these extra useless messages one at a time.
after jailbreaking my iphone [...]

testing threads with py.test

i’m a big fan of automated unit tests. my preferred testing utility is py.test. for most things it works pretty well and its super easy to use.
threads are tricky to deal with but especially while trying to test them if you have a lot going on at the same time. by default [...]

back home from pycon

made it back home yesterday with only a 45 minute delay after nearly getting stuck in san antonio because of bad weather in austin.
i hung out in the bazaar/olpc sprint room monday. i’m pretty new to bazaar and wasn’t really able to contribute anything but i spent the time familiarizing myself with the code [...]

pycon 2008 - day 3

the first keynote address was really good, calling for an easier way of getting a standardized python distribution on windows to make it easier to distribute single python scripts. the second keynote address, snake charming the dragon, was also good but dragged on a little too long with perhaps too much detail. mark [...]

pycon 2008 - day 2

some of the keynotes from this morning were great. others, less than exciting - informative at best. i used the time to check out allmydata.org’s tahoe distributed filesystem, connecting to an ad-hoc p2p network started by other pycon participants. cool stuff. i haven’t quite figured out how to replicate data from [...]

pycon 2008 - day 1

day 1 of pycon 2008 is wrapping up.  i’d say it turned out pretty well.  aside from wireless issues and some minor registration problems everything seemed to run smoothly and on schedule.
all of the talks i attended were interesting:

buffer interface in py3k - nice idea - might have some use for this for parsing binary [...]

learning pygtk

i’ve got some apps i want to write for the neo1973/freerunner. the standard interface appears to be gtk+. my preferred programming language is python so i’ve been going through the pygtk tutorial. most of the limited interface work i’ve done is in visual basic so i’m not entirely comfortable with the event [...]