‘python’ Entries
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Apr272010
Switching Themes in Gnome Shell
As many of you may know, Gnome3 is due for release later this year, and with it's release, we will see Gnome-Shell become the new window manager for many Linux distributions based on Gnome. I have played around with Gnome-Shell and I have to say that I really like how it's making everyday tasks something that feels natural and simple. I really look forward to the end result.
I did however have one initial complaint about Gnome-Shell, and that was that it's not easy to change themes, yet. What I do like, is that the gnome developers decided …
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Sep132009
Block comenting python code in vim
Recently, I find myself wanting to do block commenting for my python scripts more and more often. Sometimes just to hide a piece of code, or disable it while I'm debugging etc.
Of course, in python the best way to do this is by putting a `#` at the start of the line, but this process can be quite tedious if you have lots of code you wish to comment. I decided to let vim do the work for me.
I placed the script in my vim plugins folder, and then mapped F6 to the BlockComment() call, …
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Jun052009
Spam bots halted with Akismet
Up until the start of this week, I was not really concerned about spam bots finding my site. In my naivity, I believed that my site is small enough to go completely un-noticed by them. I also thought that should any bot find my site, they still have to get past the django forms honeypot.
A couple of days ago, I found that I was very wrong. Luckilly I caught it early, and quickly disabled comments on by blogs and videos, and deleted the spam. Next my search started for a solution. I read up on Django's comment …