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September 2007



Slicing web pages with inkscape (and python)

2007.09.28 Fri 10:42 A GMT-07
Using the plugin Was watching this video describing how to "slice" web page designs two days ago and it inspired me. After a tiny bit of digging I found that one can easily script inkscape using python. Here's the process I've used for slicing web
Category: python linux open source
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Learn python with my slides, a cheatsheet, me, or a simple game

2007.09.14 Fri 9:40 A GMT-07
I gave my abbreviated "Intro to Python Tutorial" class last night at Utah Python Users Group. There was also a nice intro to django by Seth House and a short discussion of "Python in the Industry" by Byron Clark. So since Duncan asked for some slide
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Intro to python tutorial handout

2007.09.06 Thu 9:20 P GMT-07
I'm speaking at The Utah Open Source Conference tomorrow. I'll be giving an intro to python class. I'll be giving an abbreviated version of the talk again next week at the Utah Python User Group. For those in Utah who aren't coming to the Conferen
Category: python open source
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Howto create a pygments backend

2007.09.05 Wed 9:21 A GMT-07
Pygments is a source code highlighter. I believe the main purpose is to format code/markup for webpages (forums, blogs, wikis, trac, etc). (I used it on my previous post). But it also has renderers for latex, rtf and bbcode. I happened to desire
Category: python open source

Boilerplate for maintainable, distributable, testable python code

2007.09.04 Tue 5:54 P GMT-07
#! /usr/bin/env python """ canonicalcat is an example of writing a python program that perhaps you want to distribute or will be maintained over time. As such one should add documentation and this is an example of module level documen
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