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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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And finally here it is: I launched right now this site’s redesign. I haven’t put a lot of work on it but I’m pleased with the final results. I like min­i­mal­ism and mono­chrome designs, and even though this isn’t the most min­i­mal­ist design ever, I think it’s a good com­pro­mise. Taking advan­tage from oppor­tu­nity, I added some new fea­tures to the site (and removed some old ones).

The biggest change is the right column: now inte­grates my pownce feed. I’m still trying to under­stand why it doesn’t show noth­ing but simple posts, but I’ll fix it some­day (that’s not my fault though, I’m using a word­press plugin). And all the stuff that pre­vi­ously were on the right, now are on the very bottom of the page.

Just a couple of rants: I wish this was pow­ered from django and I hate wordpress.

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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