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July Updates for Sublime Text View In Browser Plugin 2 Jul 2013 | 06:13 pm
As some of you may know I wrote and maintain a plugin for the popular and excellent Sublime Text 2 text editor called View In Browser. To date this is my most popular plugin with 10 forks and 30 stars...
Making a Collection Object in PHP 5 Jun 2013 | 05:43 pm
Recently I was working on a bit of code where I had an array of structures (a map or dictionary) that was the result of a query to a database. This data represented a set of statuses, each record with...
Decorator for Serializing MongoDB Dictionaries to JSON in Python 24 May 2013 | 05:48 pm
Before you read this I'm going on the record stating that this problem has likely been solved hundreds of times before. So here is yet another take on how I am managing to serialize Python objects tha...
Comparing Classes in Python 23 May 2013 | 08:24 am
Most object oriented languages have a means to compare two objects or classes. Java has the Comparator interface. In C# you can override the Equals() method. Python naturally has a way to make your cl...
Quick Blurb on Python Beaker and Memcached 21 May 2013 | 10:55 pm
Real quickly I wanted to post to show how one can configure Beaker for session management using Memcached as the session storage. It took me a minute and a few searches to put it all together, so hope...
How I Deployed a PHP App via FTP Using Fabric and Git 21 Apr 2013 | 06:58 am
A project I've been working with for a bit now uses a popular hosting provider to host a PHP application I'm writing. My normal workflow with this project is to make changes, commit my code to my Git ...
Python itertools: Display repeating permutations of a number set 14 Feb 2013 | 06:52 pm
Back in July of 2010 I blogged about displaying a set of repeating permutations of a number set. In this blog post I explained how my daughter had a kid's "spy safe" that had four buttons on it that c...
Filtering items in Python 13 Feb 2013 | 12:32 am
Continuing my exploration of the itertools module in Python I wanted to look at the ifilter() method. ifilter() is a method that returns an iterator of items that return true from a test function (or ...
Grouping an array by key in Python 12 Feb 2013 | 10:13 am
Have you ever had a flat dataset and you needed a portion of the data grouped into a sub-array? I came across such a need this weekend and thought I'd share my experience. In this code sample we'll se...
Internet Explorer Testing VMs 1 Feb 2013 | 08:17 pm
I'm not sure how long this site has been up but I'm just now finding it. http://www.modern.ie/ is a developer site with tools and resources to help test and detect issues in older IE versions, as well...
