Archive for 2009
Beginner's guide to creating a GNOME applet with Python (Part II)


It's been a while since I wrote the first [1] part of this guide. I'm happy to introduce you the second part of the tutorial. This part continues the story about applet-only techniques. Even if you're skilled in PyGTK, you're adviced to read this part.

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Big and Little endianness quest


Sometimes the bugs in programs do not depend on a programmer. For example, when a programmer expects a certain result from a built-in function, that would be the last place to check for bugs. But sometimes weird stuff happens, and it also happened to me.

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RSS.py - RSS 2.0 builder


The rss.py is a small open-source library written in Python 3 that helps generating RSS 2.0 feeds in easy and convenient way.

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Python and config files routine


Few days ago I wrote a helper class to deal with 'config' files. I used Python's power to seal config files handling routine to generic, type-independend, easy-to-understand way.

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Emacs, LaTeX and pdf viewer


A short note on how-to set a pdf-viewer for LaTeX-generated documents in Emacs.

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