Tag Archives: python

Using Multiple Python Environments With Gentoo

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Dennis

It’s been some time since Python 2.5 became stable and released. Version 2.5 has plenty of new features that have helped me in deciding that it was time to go ahead and start using it for primary development of all … Continue reading →

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Virtual Hosting TurboGears Applications on Mac OS X Leopard

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Dennis

For a couple years now, I’ve been learning and applying various tricks for developing and hosting multiple Python web sites on my development machines. During that time, I made a migration to Mac OS X. Most setup files for python … Continue reading →

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Keeping a process running

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Dennis

Have you ever had a process that dies on occasion? For me, I hate that situation and prefer to fix the software as opposed to have a monitor that restarts the process when it dies. I’ve run into a case … Continue reading →

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YUI Image Uploader Example with TurboGears

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Dennis

After completing the YUI Image Uploader, I received a lot of requests for a working example. I didn’t originally create a working example, because that requires server functionality that this server didn’t have. I’ve remedied the situation and have completed … Continue reading →

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Similarity of texts: The Vector Space Model with Python

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Dennis

I’m working on a little task that compares the similarity of text documents. One of the most common methods of doing this is called the Vector Space Model. In short, you map words from the documents you want to compare … Continue reading →

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Programming a client for the WHOIS protocol

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Dennis

I have a little task that involves programmatically determining whether DNS servers are set correctly for a domain. Since this project is written in Python, I first set out to see if there were any “whois” clients already available for … Continue reading →

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