Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Keeping Track of Elapsed Time in Python

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

This article shows how to put a few lines of python code into your python script so you can tell how long the script has been running, or how long a certain part of the task took to run. The Quick Answer: For the most accurrate time elapsed, use the time module and make 2 time.time() ...


Get rid of WordPress messing with your quotes while writing code

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Problem: Recently I was writing an article where I posted some python code.  Using WordPress, I was switching between HTML/Code view and "Visual" view.  Every time that I switched, the WordPress editor would change some of my code, namely the quotes.  I ended up with something that looked like this: Solution: Not exactly sure, but it ...


How to split pages in WordPress 2.5 with nextpage

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Problem: In WordPress 2.5.1, I was trying to make a multiple-page article using the <!--nextpage--> quicktag, but it wasn't working. Quick Answer: When you want a page break, switch to HTML/Code view and then type <!--nextpage-->. Whole Story As simple as this sounds, it took me 20 minutes to get this to work.  My problem was that I ...


Get attributes and filter out methods a private attributes

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

This articles covers how I was able to get the managed attributes from an object, and then get the public and managed attributes from an object.  There used to be an __members__ method, but that has been depreciated according to http://docs.python.org/lib/specialattrs.html. Really, I hope there is a better way to do this, but I can't ...


Using RedirectMatch in .htaccess to redirect entire web site

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

When changing websites, I was trying to use Apache's RedirectMatch to send all documents from one domain to another domain. I used code that I found on other websites, but I found that it didn't do what I wanted. What I wanted was for a user to put in http://www.olddomain.com/a_file.html and be redirected to http://newdomain.com/a_file.html. ...


Moving Your Mac Leopard Time Machine to a New Drive

Monday, February 18th, 2008 Select highest parent

I recently upgraded to a 1 Terabyte external hard drive and wanted to move my Time Machine backups to that drive (and start using this new drive for Time Machine). This is how I did it. Quick Solution: Use Disk Utility to Restore your old drive to your new drive, then tell Time Machine that ...


How to move WordPress to a subdomain

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

I recently made a WordPress blog for one of our clients. Everything was setup fine in a directory similar to www.thewebsite.com/blog/. Then I decided that I wanted the blog to have its own subdirectory, www.blog.thewebsite.com. The quick answer: export your data and reinstall WordPress. The whole story: So I used the cPanel interface of the web hoster ...