This example deals primarily with pulling option values out of select boxes, and should be much easier to understand than my last, somewhat convoluted Beautiful Soup example. However, much like the previous example, this one stemmed from a “real world” need. I’m talking about trying to find a bargain vacation on the super slow website, […]

My series of Beazley-related Python lessons picks up again here. This is actually a small part of a bigger assignment, which was to decode the files within a user’s Firefox cache (coming later), but this nice little script can be handy to find about anything on your system with Python.
Every Firefox cache contains a file […]

Sick of getting nickel and dimed? How about that great tech support? Here’s a way to get rid of GoDaddy, or at least cease all emails and payments to them.

A bit about CakePHP, but more about getting several virtual hosts/domains up and running on Leopard. For example, you can setup www.testsite1.dev and www.testsite2.dev with full PHP/MySQL database-driven goodness.

When you find yourself updating the same static HTML files over and over again, like with a newsletter, BBEdit’s templating feature can really save you time and your clients money. Here’s an example of the process I use with a bi-weekly HTML newsletter I do.

Every wonder what goes on behind the scenes of Google? Or what Google means to your privacy? Then check out this very well done, online video documentary.

I’ve recently wrapped up a Dynamic Languages class, taught by David Beazley. Being a Python guru, this sorta turned into a Python class, but I had no problem with that. With Dave’s permission, I’ll be posting a few of the lessons here, as well as their solutions. I’ve already posted the first assignment and a […]

So yeah, as I check out Emacs, I also checkout things in Textmate that I might not know about, and I’m learning that Textmate can do *lots* more cool stuff than I thought it could. One of those is (yes!) Textmate does have Python debugging built in (both PyCheckMate as well as the standard Python […]

Trouble with installing Emacs on Leopard? This may help.

While perusing my stats today, one breadcrumb led to another, and I came across this very interesting article by Matt Chisholm, Why Your Flash Website Sucks. In a nutshell, somebody created a Flash version of WordPress, and Mr. Chisholm lists off several reasons why this is a bad idea. I didn’t take this so much […]