Quick Python3 Gtk3 app to execute Python scripts to test long running threads in Gtk3 app. Some things could be better, like the python paths collection and displaying the PID, but I was focused on running threads without freezing the GUI and it just kind of happened. Hope it’s useful…
Gambas 3 TreeView and TabStrip Example Code
I sometimes play around with Xojo and PureBasic for quick and simple GUI apps since the interface designers are convenient and the language makes for easy coding. I was checking out Gambas 3 and found it to be fairly good but lacking in a lot of examples. I was messing…
Windows Authentication from CherryPy served from Apache 2.4/WSGI using Python 3.4 64bit.
Here’s an example with working code and all the modules to get CherryPy running in Apache via WSGI with Windows authentication. Just download and copy Apache24 and coolwhip to the C: drive, add your IP\domain to httpd.conf, and fire up the server. See the read me for more details, installing…
Minecraft Utilities
My son has been playing a lot of Minecraft and runs a server so I made him a series of utilities to make life easier. The first few I wrote were in Python and Tk, quick and dirty, but I wanted to learn the Swift programming language so I rewrote…
Streamweaver and postscript, oh my…
I was tasked to write some Pitney Bowes Streamweaver code for Adobe ES produced postscript. It has been an interesting adventure as I am new to postscript and Streamweaver. I must side step the politics and get to the meat of it. So, I need to take 30k – give…
Quick and dirty way to get Location data on Mac in Xojo
You could make a Xojo plugin in XCode to access the location data, buy a plugin, or maybe use AppleScript but I think this is simple and will work right in the console using Curl as well as within any language that can issue shell commands. Since it’s Curl it…
Easiest way to convert a PDF to EPUB for free on a Macintosh?
1. Open the PDF in Preview.app, Edit>Select All, right click selection and Copy.2. Open Pages.app, Edit>Paste.3. Do any minor edits.4. Export as EPUB (You will have other output options as well).5. For further tweaks get Sigil. Don’t spend weeks writing code to do this only to find that a complicated…
MacNote
Are you looking for a simple and quick way to enter notes into the Apple’s Notes.app application from the statusbar? Don’t want the extra features of big note tools or really just like Apple’s built in Notes app? Me too! So I wrote a little utility I call MacNote to…
TextMate 2 released under GPLv3
I built a copy on Mountain Lion if you don’t want to build it yourself. Download SHA1 : 6afbef8e318c97e4964b8c3d67049ed0d160cfe0 Source can be found also be found on Github, more info below: http://blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-2-at-github/
Adding “Create Text File” to Mac OS X using Automator and no code.
Update: It seems you can now add menu items to the contextual (right click menu) in Finder. I no longer use Mac so I have not tried this but should be able to add a create text file entry if you like. Unfortunately I assume most would want this from…
