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 […]

Yes, IDLE is installed on Leopard - you just need to launch it from the command line.

I’m finding The Soup to be extremely useful for turning static HTML sites into dynamic, database driven sites. For example, scraping the desired html data, dumping it into a CSV file, and importing it into MySQL. Here’s one “real-world” example of how to do that.

The more I use Python, the more I think about using it online. Often this amounts to creating simple tools to help me get things done quicker, like embed a simple script in a web page, process a form, etc. without having to install an entire framework. Besides, it’s handy having the basics of Python […]

This handy, free little Firefox plug-in makes it a snap to upload and view your Google Docs, all within Firefox. It opens a sidebar, much like the history sidebar, on the left with invoked via the menu or a keyboard shortcut. Initial testing results: super cool! Read more about it here.

Many new bloggers think that they can immediately start generating revenue from their blogs. In my experience, it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock n’ roll (and make dough). Here are some tips to help figure out your strategy.

As I pursue my python adventures, I of course wanted to learn how to do one of the things I do most - pull data out of MySQL. It seems the simplest way to start doing that is Python is to use MySQL-Python. So, after a downloading the package from SourceForge, and following the […]

Sometime you don’t want to give your site visitors the option to open a file in their web browser. This could be a Microsoft Office document, or even a giant jpg or png image. When you want to force download a certain file type, simple add something like this to an .htaccess file in the […]