New Year's Python meme
A few days too late ... What's the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009? PIL. Okay, maybe it wasn't exactly a new discovery, but I'd never used it before t ... Read more
2010-01-05
2010 New Year's Resolutions
I don't need to lose any weight, I've already quit smoking, and although I could probably stand to get back into my weight training, it looks like the pedestrian challenges are out of the way. The pa ... Read more
2009-12-30
Image Resizing with Python and ImageMagick (bleh)
Let me first give a little background on this project, and then I'll break down the script. I'm working with a legacy image handling system that's more than a little convoluted. Source images for ... Read more
2009-12-11
My Picks for PyCon 2010
Following the lead of Catherine Devlin, Jesse Noller, and other Python bloggers, I've finally had a chance to comb through the list of talks for PyCon 2010 and come up with a few picks of my own. It ... Read more
2009-12-09
Getting Update Times On The DB Server - MySQL4
Here's the MySQL4 version of the script I posted yesterday. On the MySQL4 server, we don't have that handy INFORMATION_SCHEMA db for reference - instead, we have to get table information using SHOW T ... Read more
2009-11-06
Getting Update Times On The DB Server - MySQL5
Here's another utility script that I use to check on replication to one of our slave db servers. This probably bears some explanation - a few months ago, replication stopped for no apparent reason (a ... Read more
2009-11-05
File Comparison With Some DB Bells and Whistles
Right. So yesterday's post was mind-numbingly simple. But that's the just the file comparison. The script that I actually use also hits the db and generates a slew of additional updates for me, bas ... Read more
2009-11-04
Simple File Comparison
Without going into too many specifics, one of the things I do on a weekly basis is intake records from one of our vending partners, massage the data a little, and update one of our own tables based on ... Read more
2009-11-03
The November Blog-A-Thon
Clearly, I'm already a day behind on the whole "blog every day in November" thing. But since I haven't actually posted in ... almost a year (not since the last PyCon, in fact), I still consider this ... Read more
2009-11-02