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Emacs: Dired Directory Management
Posted by ptuzla on November 18, 2008
Picking back up on the Emacs series I started earlier this month I would like to take some time to discuss the Dired mode for directory management. I've used ECB in the past and found it nice, feature rich but...
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PDF generation with PISA in Django
Posted by ptuzla on November 17, 2008
Today I had to come up with pdf generation for a project and was happy to find Pisa makes this cake-work. Pisa depends on Reportlab but you don't have to dig into Reportlab to get your pdf generated....
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Emacs Terminal Emulator
Posted by ptuzla on November 16, 2008
In Distraction Free Progamming with Emacs I mentioned the ability to have a shell or terminal running in a window within your workspace. This is extremely handy to run tests in Python Shell or to see when something is going...
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Distraction free programming with GNU emacs
Posted by ptuzla on November 16, 2008
Editors Since becoming a switcher in 2004 I exclusively did my work in Textmate. Early summer 2008 I started to explore other options. I spent a couple of months in Vim, MacVim to be precise, and really enjoyed it. After...
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Emacs Series
Posted by ptuzla on November 16, 2008
I am going to attempt to participate in the National November Writer's Month with Eric Florenzano, Eric Holscher, Brian Rosner, Justin Lilly and James Tauber. I'm going into this daunting experiment with a mostly positive attitude. (I think i can...)...
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Django PDF Concatenation
Posted by ptuzla on November 13, 2008
On the heels of PDF Generation with Pisa in Django I've had the need to pull from a library of pdfs and concatenate based on user selection. At first there seemed to be no good solutions but research and a...
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Book Meme
Posted by ptuzla on November 12, 2008
"Prototypes can be deceptively attractive to people who don't know that they are just prototypes." The Pragmatic Programmer Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
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Emacs Buffer to OmniFocus
Posted by ptuzla on November 11, 2008
In messing around with emacs early this morning and a little google search I turned up a nice elisp snippet that works well for sending the current buffer you're working in to OmniFocus with a note attached....
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OmniFocus Starts, Things Benched
Posted by ptuzla on November 9, 2008
With all the options in great Mac software these days, I'm sure I am not the only one who feels a little disorganized by the organization options presented to us. I started GTD back in the days of Kinkless GTD....
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Entomology and Macro Photography
Posted by ptuzla on November 9, 2008
Wikipedia defines entomology as "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented", or "the scientific study of insects". I don't claim to be a entomologist, nor do I cut the little guys into pieces but I do like to get...
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