Incidentally, I've patched the website until DNS changes ripple through correctly, meaning the site is available, but in a slightly odd way. Once DNS changes ripple through (next few hours - will be quicker in different places), things will be back to their usual, stable, normal.
Regards, Michael. On Mar 28, 1:20 pm, Michael Sparks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The website was briefly down for a few hours when you looked last > week, and is down again at the moment. (There's, shall we summarise, a > hosting transition going on at the moment) > > That said, there are tutorial materials still online, including the > Kamaelia tutorial from Europython last year. > * Slides:http://www.slideshare.net/kamaelian/kamaelia-europython-tutorial > * Tutorial Notes: > > http://www.lulu.com/product/download/kamaelia-pragmatic-concurrency/5... > (Link to PDF download - free naturally :-) > (It's hosted on lulu.com because I used them to print up nice > copies of the tutorial > notes, which you can also get direct from them. You can > obviously print your own > quite happily) > * Video: (has lip sync issue due to ffmpeg not being fanastic at > transcoding, but may > be useful) Tutorial is about 3 hours in length. > > http://europython09.blip.tv/file/2323925/- Part 1 > http://europython09.blip.tv/file/2327817/- Part 2 > http://europython09.blip.tv/file/2328583/- Part 3 > http://europython09.blip.tv/file/2328810/- Part 4 > > Obviously all 3 cover the same basic material, but do so slightly > differently, due to being different media. > > Whilst the site is down, it does mean that you can't get at the > current release. However you can get a bundle containing the same > stuff by doing this: > > svn checkouthttp://kamaelia.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Code/Python > kamaelia > > Inside that you'll find 4 directories: > Apps > Axon > Bindings > Kamaelia > > Once you've done that you'll want to do this: > > cd Axon # Kamaelia's core > sudo python setup.py install > cd .. > cd Kamaelia # Where a number of tools, examples and Kamaelia > components live > sudo python setup.py install > cd .. > cd Bindings > # Inside the various subdirectories, decide whether you want to > install any of those. > # Clearly the ones you choose will influence what you can play with > > Having pygame installed is highly recommended incidentally. (Given the > topology visualiser code is quite useful) PyOpenGL is likewise > recommended for the 3D version, if that's interesting. > > Inside the Apps directory, you'll find a bunch of applications, of > varying states of utility, in there. This includes however Apps/ > Europython09/App which includes ALL the supporting files for the > Europython tutorial. > > This includes: > > MiniAxon- { 0 .. 5 }.py - various versions of a miniaxon, from a basic > run through of generators through to a simple app for pushing a file > out over a multicast socket. > > BB { 1 .. 15 } .py - a walkthrough of how to grow and evolve an old > school style bulletin board from a simple request/response protocol, > to something you can login to, and then rummage around inside menus > over a network connection. > > simplegame-{1 .. 2 }.py - 2 simple files showing how to control 2 > sprites, and also how to get them to update a shared game state. > (There are other ways, but this also shows how to use the concept of > "backplanes" in a nice way) > > Video-{ 1 .. 5 } .py - Shows how to use the pygame webcam module, and > then how to use that to create a Kamaelia based video recorder that > stores the video in Dirac format. Early versions only requires > Kamaelia & Pygame (latest version), later versions of this require > Dirac & Dirac bindings installed. > > SimpleDiracPlayer.py - A simple Dirac based video player. Requires > dirac & the dirac bindings to be > installed and working. > > Finally, you'll probably want to look at the STM, which you can view > as being like version control for values for components to check out/ > in. > > Hopefully the site will be back up (permanently) in the next couple of > days. In the meantime, hopefully this message is useful! > > Regards, > > Michael. > > On Mar 22, 1:35 am, "hb,cse" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I'm an absolute newbie, and I need to get started. I understand your > > MiniAxon tutorial is geared to my level, but I can't get to it - > > kamaelia.org seems dead, and I cannot find your tutorials anywhere > > else, either. Is there a mirror somewhere, where I can find docs and a > > tutorial ? (Preferably a complete one - I need concurrency to write a > > simulator, network functionality not needed.) > > > Sincerely, > > HB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "kamaelia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/kamaelia?hl=en.
