BBX Python: Progress, Stage Two    Posted:


So without much more effort today, I'm got it running a separate script (bbxmain.py) that is bundled into the .bar file. Again, the heart of things is trivial, just these two lines:

FILE * bbxmain = fopen("app/native/bbxmain.py", "r");
PyRun_SimpleFile(bbxmain, "__main__");

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BBX Python: Proof Of Concept    Posted:


Short post, since it's late.

Python on the PlayBook. What will be BBX-Python, some day...

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SQLite: Negative Integer Primary Keys    Posted:


I was working on the design of a PlayBook app which would perform some data logging, and considered using SQLite as the primary mechanism. Alternatives included a simple text file (CSV format), XML, or SharedObject (not really).

Since the user may want to acquire data for a very long time, possibly on an ongoing basis for years, it seemed important to spend at least a bit of time considering the storage space that would be used.

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