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Comment on Vimoutliner Plugins by Paul Hummer

Paul Hummer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:21:39 +0000

You should check out TKDO, a todo system based off of vim outliner.

https://edge.launchpad.net/tkdo

Comment on In Praise of the Genius Bar by Andy Todd

Andy Todd — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:59:08 +0000

I’m not entirely sure except that it seems one of the temperature sensors had gone haywire. Resetting the PRAM [1] seems to have been all that was necessary to sort my machine out. If that hadn’t done the job then they would have checked it in and starting taking the machine apart.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Comment on In Praise of the Genius Bar by Matt Weber

Matt Weber — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:47:33 +0000

What was the issue? My MacBook Pro has the same problem with the fan and the guys at the local Apple Store can’t seem to figure it out.

Thanks,
Matt Weber

Comment on Shiny New Engine (v2.6) by Darren Griffith

Darren Griffith — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:22:08 +0000

Actually, I believe it works this way: The svn:externals property in the WordPress tree points to the akismet trunk both before and after you perform the “svn switch”, so nothing changes for it. Therefore, you need to perform an “svn update” to update the akismet plugin.

Make sense?

Comment on Shiny New Engine (v2.6) by Jon Nials

Jon Nials — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:13:35 +0000

Ran into the same thing. Once I restarted my browser it went away.

Comment on Trouble Getting a Date by David Welden

David Welden — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:22:59 +0000

Glad to know I am not the only one who always trips over this, but I always figured it is because dates are so rarely used in real world programming One of the few ugly warts in Python I don’t like to discuss with the unbelievers. Absolutely this mess needs to be cleaned up, preferably in a new class that consolidates the intended functionality of all of the different standard modules. “Preferably one way to do things”, no?

Comment on Trouble Getting a Date by T Middleton

T Middleton — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:28:21 +0000

PostgreSQL has nice “timestamp”, “interval”, “date” and “time” datatypes, and decent functions for date math/manipulation (up to microsecond resolution). I usually do most of my date math/formating inside my postgresql queries for this reason and just have it spit out text for python. Kind of sad in a way, but better than some of your frustration above for my uses.

Comment on Opening a file in Python by Steve Kryskalla

Steve Kryskalla — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:16:05 +0000

I think you could also turn this type of function into a decorator that will automatically coerce an argument of the wrapped function.

Comment on Opening a file in Python by Steve Kryskalla

Steve Kryskalla — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:12:16 +0000

Another version:

def getfile(obj):
….if all(hasattr(obj, attr) for attr in ['read', 'seek', 'write']):
……..return obj
….elif isinstance(obj, basestring) and os.path.isfile(obj):
……..return file(obj)
….else:
……..raise ValueError(”Not a file-like object or valid path.”)

Comment on Trouble Getting a Date by Ira

Ira — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:37:30 +0000

Just to make things a little more confusing, SQL Server has a timestamp data type… but it doesn’t even remotely conform to ANSI/ISO standards. Instead, it’s a synonym for rowversion.

And to confirm, SQL Server only provides datetime (and smalldatetime, half the size but less precision).