Giving Back To The Open Source Communtiy.
Many of us think just because we are aren’t writing the software we cannot contribute. Recently, I have started taking my first steps into helping out in my small way. Continue reading
Author Archives: Paul
When is an integer more than an integer in python?
When is an integer more than an integer? This is a common bug in Python programming, but an easy one to fix. Continue reading
Full screen Flash video on one monitor while browsing in the other.
Its nice to view flash videos fullscreen. Unfortunately, when you do something in the other monitor like click on a link in a browser the video shifts out of full screen. Today, I noticed an strange anomaly. To keep the … Continue reading
Easy Bitbucket push and pulls with ssh on webfaction.
Normally when doing a push or pull from Bitbucket one needs to enter a password every time one does a push or pull. To avoid this one can switch from https access to ssh. MODIFY THE MERCURIAL SETTINGS: Change to … Continue reading
How to find the class a Foreign key field relates to?
Lets get the Model field first. f1 = getattr(SomeModel, ‘fieldname’) then f1.field.rel.to will return the class object in my case it was <class ‘products.models.Manufacturer’> Which you can then use to determine if a particular object already exists f1.field.rel. … Continue reading
Python trick of the day – Drop into ipdb upon exception.
So today I was getting an error when I ran syncdb on my new django app. So usually when I have a problem in my code I either put in a breakpoint using PyCharm (more often lately), or I put … Continue reading
Why do my videos from my IPhone play upside down on my friends computer?
So when you record a video with your iPhone it does some special magic. For example if you hold the phone upside down and record the video the video will be of course be saved upside down, but it will … Continue reading