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2016

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.