This is yet another reason I love Python! This is good for something like generating HTML tables with rowspans that you want sorted. Each tuple is a row, each item in the tuple is a cell. If you sort this data it will change the index so if you set…
Batch base64 encode PNGs in Python 3 for use in CSS.
I wrote a simple Python 3 script to base64 encode a series of PNG images for use in CSS, or whatever. If you’re learning Python try adding file output or even go a step further and generate the CSS lines. If you’re here I will assume you are wanting these…
Ajax driven HTML 5 radial gauge.
I recently updated an older JavaScript gauge example that I created years ago if anyone is interested in creating gauges and wants a working example. This web based example takes a value between 0 and 100 and will automatically update using Ajax to pull the values in from a json…
Statusbar example with Swift in XCode 6.2
I created a simple Status-bar application in Swift that dynamically creates a menu of Applications in the Utilities folder and opens the Application when the corresponding menu item is clicked. I use simple NSThread for the collection and use image assets for the icon. There is not a lot of…
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…
Create a Button with hover effect in Xojo
Drag a Canvas object onto your form from the Library. Click the Canvas object and select the Inspector, top right, and turn off UseFocusRing and for Backdrop select your default image. You can select the hover image as a Backdrop as well as it will add the image to your…
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/
Weed Calc – Playing with Lazarus Cross Dev
My son was home sick today and I had to take the day off so I decided to take this time to learn a little Pascal and Lazarus cross development. I actually couldn’t think of anything so after running into a forum post about marijuana and amounts the other day…
pyGUI & wake a sleeping Mac example.
A more modern way running on Python 3.x. The original post is old! Note: Create a virtual environment so all your libraries stay separated from the Python included in OS X. There are a couple ways to do this. One way is to install Brew, then install Python and required…
