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Julien Danjou01/14/12
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Google Calendar Notifications Using Pynotify

I use Google Calendar to manage my calendars, and I really missed something to warn me whenever I have an appointment with an alert set. So here is an example of a Python program to do such a thing. It is written using the Google Data APIs Python client...

John Esposito01/13/12
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Prediction: PHP Cloud Hosting Will Get Serious in 2012

Phil Sturgeon has been playing with PHP Fog and Pagoda Box for a while, and he thinks that PHP cloud hosting is about to hit its stride.It hasn't yet -- not like Ruby, for example, with its happy Heroku. But why not?Here's why, says Phil:

Julien Danjou01/13/12
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Using GTK+ stock icons with pynotify

It took me a while to find this, so I'm just blogging it so other people will be able to find it. I wanted to send a desktop notification using pynotify, but using a GTK+ stock icons. With the following snippet, I managed to do it.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis01/13/12
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How To Do An Isolated Install of Brubeck

I wanted to install James Dennis’s Brubeck web framework, but lately I’ve become fanatical about installing nothing, nothing, in the system-wide directories. A simple rm -rf brubeck/ should make it like nothing ever happened. So that I remember this for...

Eli Bendersky01/13/12
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pyelftools: Python library for Parsing ELF and DWARF

I’m happy and proud to announce the release of a new open-source Python package to the world. pyelftools is a pure-Python library for parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information. It provides both low-level and high-level APIs for...

Brian Swan01/13/12
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DZone Top Article of 2011: 3 Components of a Successful Project

Earlier this month I attended the monthly meeting of the Seattle PHP Meetup Group. In ways I didn’t expect, it was a very interesting meeting. The content itself was interesting enough (we were talking about database design), but what I found even more...

Mike Dirolf01/12/12
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Cool Python Module: html2text

Parts of the Fiesta API (as well as some new features we’re rolling out for Fiesta itself) rely on the ability to automatically generate clean text (markdown) versions of incoming messages. Our parser tends to prefer using the text version of a message...

Mitch Pronschinske01/12/12
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'The Developer World Has Serious Issues With Diversity' -Martin Fowler

Although it's easy to become accustomed to it, it's pretty obvious the software development world has some serious issues in diversity. By this I mean that we have some notable differences in proportions of people compared to the general population. One...

Mitch Pronschinske01/11/12
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DZone's Bringing You More Python Awesomeness

Calling all Pythonistas (Pythonistos?) and Djangonauts! Did you know that Python is ranked 3rd behind Java and JavaScript as the programming language that DZone audience members would want to know if they could only pick 3?

Giuseppe Vettigli01/11/12
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Tip: Python Variables and Typing

Never forget, Python uses duck typing and has typed objects but untyped variable names. lfc = "Liverpool" # this is a string manc = "Manchester City" l_score = 3 # this is a integer m_score = 0 print...

Gareth Rushgrove01/11/12
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Python on Cloudfoundry

For those that haven’t yet had a look Cloudfoundry from VMware is two things, one of which is nice, one of which is very cool indeed:

Patrick Debois01/11/12
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DZone Top Article of 2011: 8 Ways to Share Your Git Repository

This blogpost provides a summary of different ways to share a git repository. Depending on your needs you can opt for different solutions.

Chris Smith01/10/12
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Squeezing Python into an Android with a Single APK

While the use of Python on Android has been made possible for some time now through SL4A, the Python for Android project has set out to make things even easier. SL4A allows you to edit scripts and execute interactive interpreters directly on an Android...

Julien Danjou01/10/12
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Python Sets Comparisons

This week I lost some time playing with Python's sets. After digging into Python source code, I finally discovered there is what seems to be little bug. Anyway, it has been "fixed" in Python 3, fortunately. I did not find if it was reported...

Stoimen Popov01/10/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Data Compression with Run-length Encoding

No matter how fast today’s computers and networks are, the users will constantly need faster and faster services. To reduce the volume of the transferred data we usually use some sort of compression. That is why this computer sciences area will be always...