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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