Archive for April, 2008



Technological Choices

April 20th, 2008 by Patrick Boucher. Viewed 2739 times.

When you start building new tools or a new pipeline you have to answer quite a few artist-centric questions such as what you want these tools to do and how they will fit into the workflow. You also have to answer a few technical questions unless you might wind up in a quagmire consisting of [...]

XSIBlog, meet Feedburner

April 20th, 2008 by Patrick Boucher. Viewed 1689 times.

I’ve finally decided to pipe the site’s RSS Feeds through Feedburner.
Update your subscriptions if you wish. The links can be found in the footer, entries to the left and comments to the right.
Cheers!

A Shortcut For Your Shortcuts

April 2nd, 2008 by Patrick Boucher. Viewed 2801 times.

When working with XSI in a facility I often use Python modules to better package my code and allow easy reuse of key parts in the different tools that are developed. These modules I usually keep in a location on the main drive of the workstations, for example: C:\<facilityName>\libs\python.
I’ll also put in place a system [...]