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December 19th, 2007

Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

pygooglechart
Ah, someone has made a Python library for the Google charts API. I wonder if chart director will lose a lot of sales from this? One feature that would be neat is for the library to cache the charts to mitigate Google’s 50K charts per day limit.

Numerical Recipes in C (free?)
Doesn’t seem to work without Adobe?

SilverStripe - Open Source CMS / Framework
An up and coming CMS? I dunno.

How to Change the Debug Level in Python’s urllib2

CHowTo/BasicPluginHowto - Pidgin - Trac
Tutorial on how to write a Pidgin plug in. I thought it would be neat to have a plug in that saves pidgin chats to campfire, but alas this plug in writing looks like extreme amount of work.

reddit auto-upmod (Ron Paul) – Userscripts.org
There’s a bot war going on over at reddit.com. Here is your weapon (if you’re into that sort of thing).

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 4:30 AM MST

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December 17th, 2007

How to Read Asimov

I figured I’d like to start readings works by Isaac Asimov, but the sheer volume of stories is overwhelming. I didn’t know where to start and I was paralyzed by the fear of starting with the wrong book and say spoiling hundreds of other books/stories.

Luckly the people from Ask MetaFilter came to the rescue and recommended reading the stories in the order of publication.

Here is a list of his books with publication dates grouped by series. I shall start with “Foundation”.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other, Idle Curiosities at 10:38 PM MST

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Python - Fixing ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘…’

Little tip, If you’re getting this error in Python and you have no idea why, check for circular imports. That’s what the problem was for me.

A circular import is for example module A imports module B and module B imports module A. There are certain scenarios where this doesn’t work. (More reading here, and here.)

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Python at 6:33 PM MST

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Where Pidgin Chat Logs are Stored

For me with Pidgin 2.3.1 I found them stored here:
C:\Documents and Settings\gpinero\Application Data\.purple\logs\

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Other at 2:12 PM MST

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December 13th, 2007

How to Stop Excel from Cutting Off Cell Values When Saving as DBF

When saving an Excel file as DBF 4, I was finding that the values in one column were getting truncated.

Well it turns out that you have to change the width of your columns to avoid this behavior. So make sure every column width is wide enough to show the full text from that column before saving as DBF. (Even make it wider than auto width to be safe.)

Do note that when saving in DBF 4 format from excel, it will still insist on cutting off your header (first row) values at 10 characters.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Excel, GoldMine at 12:37 PM MST

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