Control Docker containers from within container
This is a short note on how to make a container access and control another container on the same host. The trick is to have the "controller" container map the host's docker.sock into the container.
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Nuke gizmos to groups
Recursively replace all gizmos in Nuke script with a group. The only exception is the Cryptomatte nodes, which will be maintained as gizmos.
Distributing Python script(s) as zip file
A recent discussion on 3DPRO sparked me to scribble down some ideas on how to somewhat painlessly distribute a Python package to be run in DCC applications such as Maya or Nuke as simply as possible. So this is an alternative to building a wheel and mucking around with virtual environments.
Google Hangouts Chat incoming webhook using Python standard library only
The official docs on setting up an incoming webhook uses the third-party httplib2, which is not part of the Python 3.6 standard library. Here's a quick snippet using only the standard library instead:
Cartesian product in Python
A cartesian product operation can return a set of "combinations" based on given values.
Switching between Docker and VirtualBox on Windows 10
As outlined here, Docker for Windows requires Hyper-V. This needs to be disabled before you can run VirtualBox.
Official PySide2 wheels!
The Qt Company has released official and pip-installable PySide2 wheel snapshots!
Standalone PySide2 wheels
The Qt Company has yet to release official, standalone and pip-installable PySide2 wheels. However, since they made it possible to build standalone wheels successfully, I'm now building such unofficial, standalone wheels here using free CI services (thanks Travis and AppVeyor!):
Dates and databases with Python
It's a bit tricky to deal with dates, timezones and daylight savings when you need to store dates in e.g. a database for later reading.
Querying the FPS preference in Maya
This tickles the funny bone.
>>> import maya.mel as mel
>>> fps = mel.eval('float $fps = `currentTimeUnitToFPS`')
>>> print(fps)
24.0
Let me know in the comments below if this can be improved...