Python musings
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Stopdesign | Filtering CSS
How to create simple filters to display different style sheets to different browsers:
Stopdesign | Filtering CSS
Monday, July 19, 2004
How to work in groups
Simple summary is:
# Embrace ego.
# Use the group for having ideas, not just ratifying them.
# Beware premature optimization.
# Structure is not tyranny.
# Decide how to decide.
# Settle on social software.
# Get it in writing.
# Match roles and goals.
# Talk about the relationship.
# Accept inequality.
# There is no substitute for time.
# Have a drink. You've earned it.
Details are here.
winGuiAuto.py
Python program that allows you to control any open Windows program (does not require that the other programs be written inPython!)
This is awesome!
winGuiAuto.py
Friday, July 16, 2004
Linux Mail Tools & Docs
Possible mail clients to consider on Linux:
- Novell Evolution: "Evolution, from Novell, seamlessly integratesemail, calendaring, contact management, and task lists, in one easy-to-use application."
- Thunderbird: "Thunderbird 0.7 is Mozilla's next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before"
- KMail, the KDE mail client: "KMail is a fully-featured email client that fits nicely into the K Desktop Environment, KDE. It has features such as support for IMAP, POP3, multiple accounts, powerful filters, and much more."
- Sylpheed: "Sylpheed is a lightweight, and fast e-mail client and news reader based on GTK GUI toolkit, and runs on X Window System."
Finally, to port email from Eudora to Linux, use KMail - Tools & Docs: "Eudora2Unix, a collection of Python scripts that together convert Qualcomm Eudora mail folders to mail directories for unix or Linux. Updated 2003-03-31"
Thursday, July 15, 2004
SourceForge.net: Project Info - libgmail
Library to access Gmail via Python!
SourceForge.net: Project Info - libgmail
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Debugging trick: using inspect & pprint
Article that shows how to do simple debugging using the inspect module (allows you to get the stack trace) and pprint (formats the material in a useful way):
O'Reilly Network: Cheap debugging trick: inspect pprint
