Archive for October, 2008

Mini Searches with Answers

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

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.

gTranslate :: Firefox Add-ons
Good language translator extension for the Firefox

Debugging CSS in Internet Explorer – Part 1 | iBloom Studios
Presents common CSS issues in IE6 and how to fix them. It actually helped me with divs getting squished. Answer is to give everything widths when you're using floats.

Good Advice and Maxims for Programmers – comp.lang.perl.misc | Google Groups
#11915 Only Sherlock Holmes can debug the program by pure deduction from the output. You are not Sherlock Holmes. Run the *** debugger already.

iXce’s blog » Blog Archive » Tip of the day: Dynamic forms with Django newforms
How to customize your Django forms at instantiation time i.e., control what fields your form has and how they look at run time.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Mini Searches with Answers

Monday, October 13th, 2008

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.

How to search Gmail by attachment file extension
To search for emails that contain attachments, use: has:attachment. If you know some words from the title of an attachment or its extension, add them: has:attachment filename:pdf or has:attachment filename:author filename:review.

How to run javascript on a local HTML file – use Mark of the Web
<!– saved from url=(0014)about:internet –>
Note The HTML comment must be properly formatted for Internet Explorer to parse the information correctly. Proper format includes inserting a space immediately following the opening delimiter " <!– " and just before the closing delimiter " –> ". The line must end in CR LF. Some HTML editors only insert a LF.

pod (python open document
library that allows to easily generate documents whose content is dynamic. The principle is simple: you create an ODF (Open Document Format) text document (with OpenOffice Writer 2.0 or higher for example), you insert some Python code at some places inside it, and from any program written in Python, you can call pod with, as input, the OpenDocument file and a bunch of Python objects. pod generates another ODF text document (ODT) that contains the desired result. If you prefer to get the result in another format, pod can call OpenOffice in server mode to generate the result in PDF, DOC, RTF or TXT format.

All About Python and Unicode | boodebr.org
How to write web pages with unicode from Python … sort of

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,