Announcing Pytagram

August 21st, 2008

Today I just ended one of my side projects: pyta­gram. Basi­cally it gen­er­ates an SVG file (that can suc­ces­sively be saved as eps/pdf/whatever and even­tu­ally man­u­ally manip­u­lated) start­ing from a tree-​like plain text file. This can be useful for gen­er­at­ing cheat sheets or quick ref­er­ences to classes or func­tions that belongs to some project.

I did this for gen­er­at­ing a django quick ref­er­ence (here it is) since it has a lot of func­tions and I know what’s their pur­pose, but I can never remem­ber the names (and now two A4 papers are right in front of me).

If you’re inter­ested in this, check out the google code project page and grab your copy from the SVN repository.

There are tons of things that can be changed/optimized (i.e.: add some optional short expla­na­tion of the func­tion, add more exam­ples, easier way to change colors, …) but now the code is work­ing quite well so that can be already useful to the people out there.

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Alternate text colors with CSS

August 7th, 2008

When I was redesign­ing this site, I was exper­i­ment­ing many dif­fer­ent options for the header. Among the whole set of solu­tions I tried, I was very happy with the one I’m going to illus­trate even though I chosen another one (that is the one you can see now) because it inte­grates better with the the whole layout.

(Con­tinue reading…)

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