Posts tagged Programming
Easy Python: display LVM details in X...
If you need to work with LVM in your scripts but haven’t found a good method to access details about Logical Volume Groups, here’s a simple Python script that will print the details about any volumes on your system. This could be useful for writing a partition check script for your MySQL data directory (if you’re not using [...]
N900 – control all of your acco...
If you own a Nokia N900 cellular device you might be interested in the ability to control all of your IM accounts from the command line. For those that do not know, the N900 runs Maemo Linux and is capable of running MySQL embedded if you so choose. Here’s a quick script I wrote to provide that functionality for IM accounts. It’ [...]
Reviewed: Python Testing by Daniel Ar...
I’ve recently had the pleasure of reading “Python Testing: An easy and convenient approach to testing your python projects” from Packt Publishing. It’s been a quick read but a solid set of instructions on the different methods for the subject.
The book starts out very quickly with details about the various methods t [...]
Event based programming vs threading ...
Saw this interesting paper about highly concurrent programming methods and figured the word should be spread! It’s not new material but it’s a good read. See the full article here: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/vonbehren/vonbehren_html/
“Highly concurrent applications such as Internet servers and tr [...]
Reviewed: Managing Software Developme...
I’ve recently been migrating my wiki/documentation for Kontrollbase to Trac. For those that are not aware, Trac is a web-based documentation/wiki/Subversion tool that is used by countless number of software projects. Subversion, of course, is a software collaboration and code management repository that manages branches/tags/trunk file [...]
Is emacs not coloring your Python com...
This is a simple matter with a simple solution that might help someone save time and confusion. Emacs wasn’t coloring my comments correctly so I went ahead and had it change them to red-italic. If you are having similar issues you can drop the following into your home directory’s .emacs file. Enjoy. Keep in mind that if you are [...]
ExtJS 3.0 Cookbook Review
There is a quantity of snow falling outside as I write this and that means it’s a good day to read programming books. I’ve recently been enjoying the ExtJS 3.0 Cookbook by Jorge Ramon that is published by the Packt group. I’ve been using ExtJS for the last year and have experienced the transition from version 2.0 to 3.0 an [...]
