Category: Code Recipes

So if anyone is looking for a fun, geek-out project on a Sunday afternoon, this one will do nicely. You do not need to know. . .

I like git, but it can be daunting the first time you try to use it.  So I’ve come up with this little blog post. . .

Type this command at the command line.  This is super handy when you need to copy something off a server and do not want to. . .

Sometimes processes can be stopped because a machine is rebooted or for some reason the process has stopped running. This short little Python program will. . .

This python class is designed to timeout a function if something it hangs for too long. It was originally created by Speno’s Pythonic Avocado (I. . .

1.) Create the file ‘.svnignore’ in you projects root directory. Use your favourite text editor: nano, vi, vim, emacs, etc to create and edit the. . .

I was just playing with the bit.ly python library and wrote a quick function & command line utility to shorten URLs. Prerequisites = bitly.py, simplejson. . .

The following Python script  can make your life easier if you often need to create new, blank, databases for a Rails,  Django, or for any. . .

Hello.  This is based on the Python Boto library.  I created a class with a couple functions for storing and retrieving information (either publicly or. . .

This little recipe works for me if you’re not using any special hardware. Run these commands as root or use sudo. This will work for. . .