Posts in February, 2003

Reading Outlook Contact using Python

A recipe from Kevin Altis: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/173216.

posted February 1st, 2003

SFTP for jEdit

FTP plugin version 0.5 for jEdit was released today. With it, one can connect to a machine running OpenSSH and edit files as it they were local. This is really cool!

posted February 3rd, 2003

Cool Python Trick

While skimming through Python-Dev Archives I came across an interesting post by Chad Netzer on a Python equivlent for a common use of the ternary operator in C.

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:38, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

> For example, here's a common idiom i use in C:
>
>     printf("Read %d file%s.", count, count == 1 ? "" : "s");

Just for giggles, here is a python version:

        print "Read %d file%s." % (count, {1:""}.get(count,"s"))

The whole post can be found here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-February/033147.html

posted February 7th, 2003

The Quotations Page

Looking for interesting RSS feeds to use with jEdit's Headlines plugin, I stumbled across a Quotes of the Day feed, which can be found here: http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss

posted February 8th, 2003

Guido Discusses Strong vs Weak Typing

In Part V, of A Conversation with Guido van Rossum, Guido discusses Strong versus Weak Typing.

posted February 11th, 2003

Sun Compares Java and Python

Python recieves a favorable review from Sun in an internal memo, where Java and Python are compared.

posted February 11th, 2003

PyWiew Image Viewer

A wxPython-based image viewer: http://members.fortunecity.com/anandpillai/

posted February 13th, 2003

WebDAV Plugin for jEdit

A WebDAV plugin for jEdit is under development. More information and downloads available here: http://www.webdav.us/

posted February 17th, 2003

Bash Key Combinations

Below are useful Bash key combinations from this week's Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/) Weekly News (http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030217-newsletter.xml):

Alt+B   // Go back one word
Alt+F   // Go forth one word
Ctrl+K  // Delete everything from the cursor to the end of the line
Ctrl+U  // Delete everything from the cursor to the beginning of the line
Ctrl+Y  // Paste deleted characters at the current position
Ctrl+H  // Delete one character
Ctrl+L  // Clean screen
Ctrl+P  // Go to the previous history entry
Ctrl+N  // Go to the next history entry

posted February 18th, 2003

Is Python What you Need?

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?file=../030301/604e_business1_1.shtml

posted February 20th, 2003

TaskList 0.4.1

A new release of TaskList Plugin for jEdit is available. This release includes performance improvements.

posted February 21st, 2003

List of User-Agents

http://www.psychedelix.com/agents.html

posted February 21st, 2003

EditorScheme Plugin 0.4.2

A new release of EditorScheme plugin for jEdit is available. It should be available on plugin central shortly, but in the meantime you can get it here: http://www.rutherfurd.net/jEdit/plugins/editorscheme/.

posted February 24th, 2003