I have a suggestion for the wxPython website. I think we should have some box saying “Who uses wxPython?” And then a bunch of impressive companies that use wxPython. Google and Dropbox are impressive enough, I think NOAA uses it too. There are probably more household-name companies. I think this will make a good impression on people visiting the site to learn about wxPython.
By the way, the reason I’m thinking about it is because I’m recently frustrated with the fact that I almost never see wxPython job ads. I would love to work on a contract wxPython project instead of contract web projects as I do today. So that lead me to think that possibly there are many companies out there who would benefit from wxPython but just don’t know it yet. A “Who uses wxPython?” section might help a little with that.
I wouldn't look at anything specific for app dev, you have to be able
to work with multiple, or low level languages, to accomplish certain
tasks, so look at specific features for your own dev activities, and
know that clients will want more, or more importantly, less for their
individual needs.
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I have a suggestion for the wxPython website. I think we should have some box saying “Who uses wxPython?” And then a bunch of impressive companies that use wxPython. Google and Dropbox are impressive enough,
How do Google and Dropbox use wxPython? For windows associated with installation processes (for Google Earth or Google Desktop)?
And I see Dropbox listed on the wxpython Wikipedia page, but not Google, so why do you think Google uses it?
There are probably more household-name companies. I think this will make a good impression on people visiting the site to learn about wxPython.
I’d like to know.
By the way, the reason I’m thinking about it is because I’m recently frustrated with the fact that I almost never see wxPython job ads. I would love to work on a contract wxPython project instead of contract web projects as I do today. So that lead me to think that possibly there are many companies out there who would benefit from wxPython but just don’t know it yet. A “Who uses wxPython?” section might help a little with that.
I was just wondering the other day about how many people work and earn their living as wxPython based application developers. It seems like at least some people on this list are in that category. I’d like to know more.
As I recall, Robin mentioned that dropbox's client is written in
wxPython. There's not too much to it, but it's still cool. Chris B.
from NOAA uses wxPython, obviously. Enthought uses wx as well. I think
the guy I met at PyCon last year was using or planning to use wx for
his client, which was Adidas or Nike. Other than that, I don't have a
lot of info.
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On Mar 4, 9:29 am, C M <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM, cool-RR <ram.rac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> I have a suggestion for the wxPython website. I think we should have some
> box saying "Who uses wxPython?" And then a bunch of impressive companies
> that use wxPython. Google and Dropbox are impressive enough,
How do Google and Dropbox use wxPython? For windows associated with
installation processes (for Google Earth or Google Desktop)?
And I see Dropbox listed on the wxpython Wikipedia page, but not Google, so
why do you think Google uses it?
There are probably more household-name companies. I think this will make a
> good impression on people visiting the site to learn about wxPython.
I'd like to know.
> By the way, the reason I'm thinking about it is because I'm recently
> frustrated with the fact that I almost never see wxPython job ads. I would
> love to work on a contract wxPython project instead of contract web projects
> as I do today. So that lead me to think that possibly there are many
> companies out there who would benefit from wxPython but just don't know it
> yet. A "Who uses wxPython?" section might help a little with that.
I was just wondering the other day about how many people work and earn their
living as wxPython based application developers. It seems like at least
some people on this list are in that category. I'd like to know more.
I continue my education thinking that each project will be client
specific. So I open my mind continuously to the aspect of a software
engineer(e.g. I have to make this hardware spit this data out).
I can't be perfect at everything, so I have to look toward libraries
that are either readily usable, or I can alter with an intermediate
understanding of the language, with a predisposition toward learning
other languages. In the event i don't find the function, I resort to
DIY.
Any language is dispensable in the face of a potential client with
ulterior motives, in terms of what the want implemented, and what is
possible technologically.
Well, I use it at work, of course. I have an email checker program that alerts me when I have a new email or something coming up on my calendar. We use Zimbra here. I also have a couple programs I’ve written for the local police. One allows them to find out who else is on duty and where they are. The other is not complete, but is for helping police take mentally ill or handicapped people return to their homes should they get lost.
I believe Andrea uses it at his work and Chris Spencer is
supposed to be releasing a kiosk app soonish with it as well.
Other examples, folks?
http://www.transana.org. It's been my job for 10 years now, with the
conversion to wxPython starting in 2003 and the first wxPython release
coming in January 2005. It's not exactly a mainstream application that
people would have heard of, but it does demonstrate what can be done with
wxPython. You can have multiple simultaneous video files linked with
multiple simultaneous transcripts shared by multiple simultaneous users in a
cross-platform environment for academic analysis of the content of the media
files. See Tales From the Bleeding Edge: The Qualitative Analysis of Complex Video Data Using Transana | Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research for more
than you ever wanted to know about how the application is used.
David K. Woods, Ph.D.
Researcher, Transana Lead Developer
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.transana.org
Yup, though I don't think it's used much outside of our little group.
However, as it happens, we are just starting to recruit for two software developers. Scientific applications with Python, wxPython, Cython, and I'm afraid some C++
We do need folks in Seattle -- drop me a note if you're interested, and pass the word along.
-Chris
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On 3/4/11 7:36 AM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
Chris B.
from NOAA uses wxPython, obviously.
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I have been able to develop a comprehensive Bible Study application
with wxPython that has many (and some unique) features including Text-
to-Speech and Audio. In many ways it rivals the commercial programs.
It can be found at www.BibleAnalyzer.com. It has had many 10,000s of
downloads and good reviews. Some of the features such as the verse
background hi-lighting, html-gradient popups, etc. are the result of
hacks I worked up. The app is teamed up with SQLite as a module
database. Because of the versatility of Python/wxPython I recently
made it possible for the built-in image viewer to work with modified
image maps and show popups and even play audio or TTS when over (or
clicking) a "hotspot."
Python/wxPython are a very powerful team and one can do a lot with
them.
I've been using wxPython off and on for the past couple of years for
my job at Orbitz[1] where I build and maintain tools for the QE
department. I can't say I'm a full-time wxPython developer, but
probably half my time is spent with wxPython. One of the tools we use
is RIDE -- the Robot Framework IDE [2][3] . This is an open source
project sponsored by Nokia Siemens Networks which uses python and
wxPython. I develop wxPython-based plugins for RIDE in addition to
writing some other in-house tools.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, C M <cmpython@gmail.com> wrote:
I was just wondering the other day about how many people work and earn their living as wxPython based application developers. It seems like at least some people on this list are in that category. I'd like to know more.
I was just wondering the other day about how many people work and earn their
living as wxPython based application developers. It seems like at least
some people on this list are in that category. I'd like to know more.
The company I work for uses Python, wxPython, matplotlib, scipy, VTK,
and other open source packages quite extensively in our work
performing analyses (including finite element analyses) of the
processing of composite materials for large aerospace manufacturers
(and related industries). We've written a complex tool (RAVEN, 200k+
LOC) that can perform setup, analysis, and post-processing of these
processes in 0D, 1D, and 2D. Recently we've expanded its capability to
include real-time monitoring of these processes through communication
with a swarm of semi-intelligent sensor nodes. The tool is used
internally and sold globally to quite a number of large corporations.
It's very much a niche tool.
The interface is entirely wxPython (much of the number crunching,
however is Fortran). We've moved to Andrea's wxAUI, rely heavily on
pubsub, and make matplotlib do things I doubt anyone ever expected.
The development team's background (both of us) isn't software
development, it's engineering, so I'm not sure this qualifies as
"making a living as wxPython app developers" but being engineers
rather than developers, using wxPython has enabled us to rapidly
develop the product in a way I find difficult to believe we would have
been able to with another toolkit.
If you're curious, you can see some embarrassingly out-of-date (18
months!) screenshots here: http://www.convergent.ca/raven
Regards,
Anthony.
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Convergent Manufacturing Technologies Inc.
6190 Agronomy Rd, Suite 403
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Over the years I've used wxPython for in-house applications for various clients, both directly and through the Dabo framework.
My main gig currently is developing a proprietary vertical app for window shutter manufacturing. It is built on Python, wxPython, SQLite, ReportLab, FloatCanvas, and Dabo and my customers run it on Windows, Mac, and Linux workstations. I distribute new releases every 6 weeks to a small worldwide base of users.
Over the years I've used wxPython for in-house applications for various clients, both
directly and through the Dabo framework.
I actually used wxPython to develop a recreation of a 25-year-old
application from a picture in a magazine, which was used as a defense
exhibit in a patent infringement case. So, wxPython has even been seen
in court!
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Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
For those discussing the extent of usage at Dropbox, I
wrote/maintained most of the wxPython in the Dropbox client for two
years so yes we used it. It turned out to be quite limited and
clunky for a lot of more modern features on the mac, since the wxCocoa
implementation wasn't quite ready. A much slimmer than vanilla build
of wx/wxPython is currently used in the linux and windows builds, and
pyobjc is used for the mac GUI.
-Mike Haimes
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> wrote:
Paul McNett wrote:
Over the years I've used wxPython for in-house applications for various clients, both
directly and through the Dabo framework.
I actually used wxPython to develop a recreation of a 25-year-old
application from a picture in a magazine, which was used as a defense
exhibit in a patent infringement case. So, wxPython has even been seen
in court!
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Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
The company I do consulting for wanted their application to run on both PC and mac, so I
used wxPython with the wonderfu help of Robin and Chris. We now have 3 applications
using wxPython and I love programming in it.
Thanks for all the effort that has been put into developing wxPyhon.
Thanks to everyone who shared their wxPython stories!
Chris: I think that the fact that your group uses it is enough to say that NOAA uses it. Also thanks for the job offer, if I was in Seattle I would pounce on that.
Google uses wxPython in its App Engine SDK. (And probably in more places that I haven’t heard of.)
For the “Who uses wxPython?” section we want big and impressive company names, not impressive projects. This is intended for the not-necessarily-tech-savvy manager who goes to wxPython.org, sees, “Hey, Google and Dropbox use this, this is serious technology!” and then lets his programmers build their project on wxPython.
So we’ve got:
Google
Dropbox
NOAA
Orbitz
Does anyone know of more household-name companies that use wxPython? I’m positively sure that there are at the very least 3 more.
I have a suggestion for the wxPython website. I think we should have some box saying “Who uses wxPython?” And then a bunch of impressive companies that use wxPython. Google and Dropbox are impressive enough, I think NOAA uses it too. There are probably more household-name companies. I think this will make a good impression on people visiting the site to learn about wxPython.
By the way, the reason I’m thinking about it is because I’m recently frustrated with the fact that I almost never see wxPython job ads. I would love to work on a contract wxPython project instead of contract web projects as I do today. So that lead me to think that possibly there are many companies out there who would benefit from wxPython but just don’t know it yet. A “Who uses wxPython?” section might help a little with that.
I have a suggestion for the wxPython website. I think we should have some box saying “Who uses wxPython?” And then a bunch of impressive companies that use wxPython. Google and Dropbox are impressive enough, I think NOAA uses it too. There are probably more household-name companies. I think this will make a good impression on people visiting the site to learn about wxPython.
By the way, the reason I’m thinking about it is because I’m recently frustrated with the fact that I almost never see wxPython job ads. I would love to work on a contract wxPython project instead of contract web projects as I do today. So that lead me to think that possibly there are many companies out there who would benefit from wxPython but just don’t know it yet. A “Who uses wxPython?” section might help a little with that.
Ram.
Thanks to everyone who shared their wxPython stories!
Chris: I think that the fact that your group uses it is enough to say that NOAA uses it. Also thanks for the job offer, if I was in Seattle I would pounce on that.
Google uses wxPython in its App Engine SDK. (And probably in more places that I haven’t heard of.)
For the “Who uses wxPython?” section we want big and impressive company names, not impressive projects. This is intended for the not-necessarily-tech-savvy manager who goes to wxPython.org, sees, “Hey, Google and Dropbox use this, this is serious technology!” and then lets his programmers build their project on wxPython.
So we’ve got:
Google
Dropbox
NOAA
Orbitz
Does anyone know of more household-name companies that use wxPython? I’m positively sure that there are at the very least 3 more.
SmithMicro’s Poser software uses it in their most recent version (version 8) for their plugin development kit. (The software itself isn’t built using it though.) Linking to the “who uses wxWidgets” on the wxWidgets wiki would probably be a good idea too.
I have a suggestion for the wxPython website. I think we should have some box saying “Who uses wxPython?” And then a bunch of impressive companies that use wxPython. Google and Dropbox are impressive enough, I think NOAA uses it too. There are probably more household-name companies. I think this will make a good impression on people visiting the site to learn about wxPython.
By the way, the reason I’m thinking about it is because I’m recently frustrated with the fact that I almost never see wxPython job ads. I would love to work on a contract wxPython project instead of contract web projects as I do today. So that lead me to think that possibly there are many companies out there who would benefit from wxPython but just don’t know it yet. A “Who uses wxPython?” section might help a little with that.
Ram.
Thanks to everyone who shared their wxPython stories!
Chris: I think that the fact that your group uses it is enough to say that NOAA uses it. Also thanks for the job offer, if I was in Seattle I would pounce on that.
Google uses wxPython in its App Engine SDK. (And probably in more places that I haven’t heard of.)
For the “Who uses wxPython?” section we want big and impressive company names, not impressive projects. This is intended for the not-necessarily-tech-savvy manager who goes to wxPython.org, sees, “Hey, Google and Dropbox use this, this is serious technology!” and then lets his programmers build their project on wxPython.
So we’ve got:
Google
Dropbox
NOAA
Orbitz
Does anyone know of more household-name companies that use wxPython? I’m positively sure that there are at the very least 3 more.
SmithMicro’s Poser software uses it in their most recent version (version 8) for their plugin development kit. (The software itself isn’t built using it though.) Linking to the “who uses wxWidgets” on the wxWidgets wiki would probably be a good idea too.
so yes we used it. It turned out to be quite limited and