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2016

Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

This is a quick intro to – and some personal notes on working with – Bash in Windows 10 (Anniversary Update or Insider build requred). This will be updated on a sporadic basis.

A treasure trove of learning Python videos

Here's a fantastic resource for anyone who wish they could learn from a Python professional rather than reading a book: Corey Schafer's Python Tutorials

Among Cory's other playlists there are playlists covering how to set up a Python developer environment, object oriented programming with Python and general programming terms which also apply to Python.

All in all, a fantastic starting point for anyone wanting to get into Python as well as wrapping your head around certain concepts which take you from beginner to intermediate Python developer.

Testing and sandboxing with Docker

A quick way to enter an interactive docker container:

docker run --rm --interactive --tty -v /localfolder:/containerfolder centos:7

On Windows, use forward slashes for the directory mapping.

For a more complex setup, have a look at sandbox-docker.

Dealing with Maya 2017 and PySide2

Maya 2017 was released today and with it comes a big change; PySide (and PyQt4) no longer works with Maya.

This guide explains how to deal with that and make your Python and PySide/PyQt scripts compatible with Maya 2017 as well as older Maya versions.

This guide is also applicable to e.g. Nuke or any other Python-enabled DCC app which uses Qt.

Installing Qt.py (advanced methods)

Qt.py can be installed in many ways, depending on your needs. This post aims to outline some common approaches:

  • Install using pip
  • Install into an application's custom Python build
  • Vendoring
  • Make Qt.py available using sys.path and site.addsitedir

Read node from Write node

Originally posted in 2011; A Python script for Nuke which takes any selected Write (or Read) node and creates a Read node from it. Now updated to fix some bugs and support for a wider range of scenarios.

Systemd services and resource limits

We made the move to CentOS 7 and I switched out all init.d scripts with systemd services. Yesterday I noticed we started getting errors on our render farm for huge scenes which required loading of thousands of files:

V-Ray warning: Could not load mesh file ...

One hint that this wasn't due to scene misconfiguration was that the initial ~1000 vrmeshes were loaded successfully, and after that no other vrmesh file could be loaded.

My Atom setup

I'm in love with Atom. Despite it being slow on large files, I still haven't been able to jump over the threshold of learning vim (or neovim). I'm way too comfortable with Atom right now. Here's my setup.