Python "Mobile Snakes" presentation

Posted on Tue 24 December 2013 in Python • Tagged with fremantle line, harmattan, maemo, meego, nemo, presentation, python, qml, qt, sailfish, slides, ubuntu touch

Back in November I gave a quick presentation to the Perth Django/Python Users Group.

It covered a brief history of Python on mobile devices (Maemo/MeeGo/Nemo/ Sailfish), and an example Python/Qt application which has a custom UI for each platform.

The slides can be downloaded here:

Mobile Snakes (November 2013)


Fremantle Line: Transperth Trains Live Departure Boards for N900 and Ubuntu

Posted on Sat 16 January 2010 in Maemo • Tagged with fremantle line, gtk, maemo, nokia n900, perth, python, transperth

I have been playing around with pygtk (python and GTK), and have managed to come up with something resembling an app to provide live departure times for Transperth trains:

Perth Train Departure Board

I've named "Fremantle Line" after Maemo 5's codename, Fremantle. It is also the destination of one of Perth's 5 train lines.

It also works in portrait mode:

It is primarily intended for the Maemo 5 platform on the Nokia N900, but will also run under Ubuntu:

Still needs plenty of work, but I am finding it quite useful while out and about in Perth.