Ola is writing her dissertation in LaTeX using gedit (GNOME Text Editor). Gedit is nice, but it can’t do hard wrap, not to mention text reformatting. Now she has lots of extremely long lines.

As vim has both mentioned features (gq) I don’t have this problem, but I decided to help her, knowing that gedit supports python plugins. Two hours of browsing documentation and, lo and behold, rewrap plugin is finished. You can see it on bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/oinopion/gedit-rewrap-plugin/

I know that there probably is something similar (and probably better) done already, but it’s great fun to hack for your girlfriend!

My time at University of the West of Scotland is about to end shortly. In two weeks I will submit my project along with lengthy dissertation for assessment. This is honours year project and should be a real-world web-application of considerable complexity including integration with some proprietary APIs.

My project, Tasklight, is lightweight task management system. It’s running on Google App Engine (Python runtime). It is build with libraries such as Werkzeug, Jinja2, wtforms and jQuery.

Tasklight is fairly complete, in terms of university project. So that is why I’m announcing public beta testing. If you feel like trashing my little, cute Python app than go to: Tasklight log in with your Google Account and … well, test it!

PS: Any feedback can go here or to uservoice forum

Quick and obvious info: I moved to wordpress. That’s kind of treason: wordpress is not in Python, but after evaluating it for a few hours it seems nice and very usable. I don’t know internal code, but from outside it’s quite good piece of software. Theme used: Elite.