Few months ago, I wrote an article on my view on the KDE vs. Gnome - Pros, Cons, stuff that irritates me and stuff that's good. At that time, I was still a Gnome user. But after a lot of frustrations with the Gnome desktop, I switched to KDE and ...
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How to use Django Uni-form with Twitter Bootstrap CSS
I'm sure, most of you, know what django-uni-form is... For those that don't, django-uni-form is a very cool django app that makes form management/styling/layouting a breeze. You can do pretty much anything to a form with it: Split it in formsets, add HTML between every element ...
read moreNew Year's Python Meme 2012
Following Tarek Ziade's #2012pythonmeme:
read more1. What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2011?
- gunicorn - We are on our way to change every apache installation to gunicorn. Proved to be just as good and quite possibly, better.
- haystack - I've built quite a few ...
KDE vs. Gnome - A Subjective View
Past year, a lot has changed with the desktop environments for Linux. Gnome going 3, Ubuntu going Unity, people going nuts about that. I've been experimenting with all of them trying to find the one that will serve me good and will evolve at a slower pace. I, being ...
read moreHOW-TO: Use multiple WMD editors on a same page
Nautilus-minus extension
nautilus-min.us is an extension for nautilus that makes uploading images and galleries to http://min.us easier for the user. It adds an item in the context menu, so when you select one or more images, you click "Upload to min.us", wait for a moment, and your default ...
read moreHow to write vim plugins with python
I'm not going to dive into how good or extendible Vim is. If you are reading this article, you probably know that. The thing that makes Vim so good, is the scripting environment behind it called VimL. Using this scripting language, you can write any functionality/plugin you need ...
read moreW3cValidate.vim
W3cValidate.vim is a plugin that enables buffer/url validation using the W3 Validator API.
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Copy w3cvalidate.vim file inside plugin directory, source it or restart Vim. Use
:W3cValidate to validate the current buffer
:W3cValidate "[url_here]" to validate a hosted page
:W3cValidateDT "[doctype]" to validate the buffer using the ...
Generate960.py
Command line utility script for generating custom 960gs grids (css). It can generate grids will custom width, column number and gutter width. Outputs to file or stdout.
Usage
python generate960.py
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-h, --help show help message and exit -w WIDTH, --width WIDTH Content width in px. Defaults to ... How to easily enable r600g Gallium3D in Ubuntu and Ubuntu derivatives for radeon
Gallium3D is a software library for 3D graphics device drivers developed by VMware. It's the next big thing in linux graphic drivers world. At the moment, it drives the old (sub r300) ATI graphic cards and it is in a very active development for NVidia and newer ATI(AMD ...
read morePyFaceDetect
PyFaceDetect is a thin wrapper around OpenCV for detection and marking faces in images.
The module can be used as an API or in console for testing purposes. For usage and options:
python pyfacedetect.py -h
Sample input
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The module consists of 2 classes:
OcvDetector that wraps OpenCV ...
Calculating image entropy with Python, How and Why?
read moreThe Why?
Lets say you are developing a video portal, kinda like youtube/vimeo and you want to have an automated way of making thumbnails. Since video manipulation in python is a bit tricky, you might as well make the thumbnails with ffmpeg every [n] seconds. You need 10 thumbnails ...
Install Proprietary ATI 10.8 drivers on Ubuntu Lucid / Linux Mint
I will digress a bit from the theme of the blog, but seeing a lot of people having issues with installing the ATI drivers on Ubuntu, I decided to put my thoughts and experience with it here.
I have experimented with the drivers quite a bit. I own Sapphire Radeon ...
read morePgbouncer Makes a Difference
Last week I was building VMware images for database and web server appliances that would host a fairly large Django application. The application is backed by a PostgreSQL database and I was looking for some info on compiling/configuring pgpool on Debian (I like to compile stuff when I can ...
read moreDjango Toolbox for Komodo
If you’re using TextMate for Django development you’ve probably came across the Python Django and Python Django Template bundles.
The Django Toolbox for Komodo does most of what the TextMate bundles do, plus integrated shortcuts for the most important links in the Django docs. Builtin template filter support ...
read moreJqCarousel Three-D
This plugin was coded to prove a point. We saw another similar plugin like this, but it was only for sale with obfuscated code, so I decided to write it and opensource it. It doesn't have the limited functionality and the custom implementation of the paid ones, it is ...
read moreBenchmark of django deployment techniques
I made a benchmark of different Django deployment techniques and configurations mostly for my personal purposes. The results are published in the hope that it would save others some time. The benchmark was not designed to test the speed of Django itself, only to give relative comparison between different techniques ...
read moreAnnouncing Django-audit-log
For those unfamiliar with the term, a definition from Wikipedia:
Audit trail or audit log is a chronological sequence of audit records, each of which contains evidence directly pertaining to and resulting from the execution of a business process or system function.
How does this come into play in a ...
read moreLivescape jQuery Live Landscape
The idea behind this plugin is to have some kind of landscape container that will contain objects moving inside of it e.g. sky with the clouds moving. The plugin is built simple, has simple implementation, it is very easy to use, yet very flexible. You only need the landscape ...
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