pyBudget v0.2.2 released, Chess0 back soon
I just finished a couple of patches for pyBudget and it is now on its version 0.2.2. This version removes the infrastructure for preferences, since I decided to not to complicate the application more. It also brings a couple of important fixes:
- 'Save as' will make the program remembering the name for the next saving
- prompt the user for saving the current budget if it was modified but not saved, before quitting
Download pyBudget
On the other line, Chess0 seems to many people like forgotten, but that is not true. I just didn't have enough time to put back my strengths and start coding again. At least, the main point is to reach v0.4 during the present year (2010), which should include a couple of speed improvements (making it about a 400% faster in searches) and several tactical improvements when playing middle-games and end-games. Version v0.5 (if any) would then include static learning and book, whereas version v0.6 (if any, and which I really doubt) would include adaptive learning techniques.
Finally, there is another thing I have been thinking for several months already. As I got my Python book as a birthday present, I though I could develop some application for practicing. Moreover, I had (already for more than a year) the idea of programming a family-tree program, where one could add as many persons as he or she wanted, and then the program would calculate how one person is related to another (apparently unrelated). This program is not yet started, but I have started they design, and it will be programmed in Python for sure.
The last concern is that, nowadays, it is important to make user-friendly programs, and hence I think I will develop this program using a graphical interface. This should, of course, be portable to non-Linux platforms, and so my choice will be most likely PyQt, WxPython or Tkinter. Any suggestion?