Category: Programming

Fun with zc.buildout

I've been exploring zc.buildout (another link) lately. In the past, I've typically gone the simpler route of using virtualenv and pip, but I knew that buildout could do some powerful things and I've long wanted to kick the tires....

MacProgrammingPython

PyObjC and how to parse Preview.app bookmarks with Python

I wrote a Python program that parses Preview.app's bookmarks. The program itself is probably of dubious use, but it illustrates some interesting techniques like using class-dump to figure out how programs written in Objective-C...

Programming

Manage rabbitmq-server with supervisor

First I installed rabbitmq: $ brew install rabbitmq ... ==> make install /usr/local/Cellar/rabbitmq/2.4.1: 114 files, 1.6M, built in 41 seconds Running rabbitmq-server will start a server in the foreground, which is kind of...

ProgrammingPython

Contributed support for the Etsy V2 API to etsy-python

My sister is an avid Etsy seller and asked me to write for her some software that would let her take hundreds of items from an Excel spreadsheet and post them to Etsy. I've written this software (actually, it's a hosted web...

ProgrammingRuby

Contributed a patch to chit

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Chit. If you're not familiar with it, Chit is a command line cheat sheet utility based on git. Chit was inspired by â€˜cheatâ€™ (cheat.errtheblog.com/) by Chris Wanstrath of GitHub fame,...

Python

Python Evaluator AppleScript

A few weeks ago, I talked about a Bash function and alias combo that lets you evaluate simple Python expressions from the Bash command-line. In a similar vein, here's a super simple GUI app, written in AppleScript that evaluates...

Python

Creating a gist from the command-line

GitHub's Gist API doesn't yet have an API call for creating a new gist. So to write a command-line utility to create gists, I had to do a little old-fashioned screen scraping with Python and mechanize....