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Krita and the accidental painting.
It has been a long time since I checked out Krita. I Painted this in Krita 3.1.1 on Mac Yosemite, versions for Windows as well and of course Linux; all are free. The bird took about six hours, give or take, and the program was not shut down for two…
Linux like Package Management for Windows and Mac
Package managers for installing open software. These gives you Linux like package management similar to Linux apt, zypper, yum, etc… Windows: https://chocolatey.org/install Mac: http://brew.sh/ Brew GUI https://www.cakebrew.com/
Convert PostScript to PDF from D lang calling GhostScript ps2pdf.
I’m learning D. I know, I am a program language hopper. This code provides working examples of getopts, concurrency, and a process call to convert PostScript to PDF using GhostScript in the D language.
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…
Install Virtuoso 6.1.6 for use with Python 3 on LinuxMint 18
Install the following from the Software Manager (use apt if you prefer): Virtuoso-opensourceVirtuoso-serverVirtuoso-vad-conductorVirtuoso-vad-isparqlVirtuoso-vsp-startpageVirtuoso-opensource-6.1Virtuoso-opensource-6.1-binVirtuoso-opensource-61-commonUnixodbcLibvirtodbc0 Download zip and Install PyODBC from https://github.com/maparent/pyodbc/tree/v3-virtuoso Unzip, cd into the expended folder, then type: $ sudo python setup.py build install Add the following in the odbc.ini: $ sudo nano /etc/odbc.ini Add the following and save it….
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…
Creating a DataMatrix GS1 barcode and saving to postscript, PDF, or image for free in C#.
I’ve been working on an interesting project where I had to learn Pitney Bowes Streamweaver in order to sort/merge and barcode postscript. I have very little knowledge of postscript and no training or knowledge of Streamweaver whatsoever. I rolled my own in C# in order to understand how the product…
Leucine calculator for MSUD management. Windows, Mac, and Linux.
I created a calculator to approximately calculate milligrams of leucine and exchange based on serving size by grams of protein. You can save the calculation as a food and further calculate meal totals. It could be helpful for people with MSUD or possibly body builders needing to calculate luecine intake….
Sort list by column preserving index.
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…
