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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.

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.

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Due to my devo­tion to the Django web frame­work, I finally got my copy of Prac­ti­cal Django Projects, by James Bennet. Not really expect­ing to have that soon, but a beau­ti­ful suprise anyway (to say the truth, I didn’t bought this: this has been sent to me as replace­ment prize for djan­go­dash because I was not eleg­i­ble to get the G33K beers since I live out­side US. Thanks to the gen­eros­ity of Daniel Lindsley).

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And I’ve been 6th. So I won a shared 2 host­ing plan at web­fac­tion and a 12 pack of G33K B33R caf­feinated root beer (still trying to under­stand what this is exactly, anyway) from bawls. Anyway, here fol­lows a short resume of what hap­pened from Sat­ur­day through Tues­day (if you’re asking your­self why it didn’t ended on Sunday, well, keep reading).

The com­pe­ti­tion began very well, I worked nor­mally for the first part of the day but then I had to stop for a while. When I came back, svn and djan­go­dash web­site was not work­ing any­more. I ini­tially thought that it was some con­nec­tion issue but when I saw that other sites were work­ing prop­erly so they def­i­nitely had some problems.

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