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March 2009



Clone Digger - another tool to add to your python belt

2009.03.19 Thu 9:11 P GMT-07
A few years back my boss asked me how I would implement code duplication detection. Real duplication would ignore variable renames, comments, and indenting (for non-python). A naive solution would just use string comparisons and not be too useful.
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Utah Python March 2009: GridBackup

2009.03.16 Mon 9:45 P GMT-07
Had a great presentation by Shawn Wilden on GridBackup. GridBackup is a friendnet that he's building on top of the allmydata tahoe grid. It's a work in progress, but he's clearly done some up front thinking as evident from his slides. Shawn's aim i
Category: python linux open source

Easy slideshow creation with rst2odp

2009.03.16 Mon 9:27 P GMT-07
I've used rst2odp a few times now for slide generation. It does a pretty good job. It's still lacking some features that the s5 stuff has, but has other features. Notably missing is footers (the support is in there in the backend library I just do
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Python and emacs (3): (Balancing) parentheses and others

2009.03.10 Tue 12:54 P GMT-07
One nice feature of emacs is show-paren-mode. (Naming it show-paren-mode rather than paren-show-mode makes it somewhat less discoverable but I digress). This nice little feature allows one to make sure parens (or brackets or curly brackets) are in
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Python and emacs (2): Color themes

2009.03.09 Mon 10:18 A GMT-07
(Not really python specific) Emacs.reddit recently had two posts dealing with emacs color themes. Coincidentally, I had just installed color-theme last Friday and was playing around with it. I was getting sick of black on white. Sadly, I really di
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