Tag Archives: Python

Webloc to Pinboard

Posted on December 17, 2009 by schwa

If I want to keep a URL around for later I generally drag the URL from Safari’s URL bar onto the desktop. This creates an “internet clipping file” (with a .webloc file extension). These files are like little self contained … Continue reading →

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Making Mercurial use the Mac OS X Keychain

Posted on February 13, 2008 by schwa

I’ve taken the plunge and am in the middle of switching from Subversion to Mercurial for revision control. Subversion has served me relatively faithfully for many years (I’ve even championed/led the adoption of subversion at two companies I’ve worked for … Continue reading →

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Run Python Script: Amazon S3 Uploader

Posted on December 14, 2007 by schwa

To help illustrate the usefulness of the “Run Python Script” Automator Action I blogged about in my previous post, here’s an action that will upload files to the Amazon S3 Web Service. The script is pure Python and uses the … Continue reading →

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Run Python Script

Posted on December 14, 2007 by schwa

Important see updates at end of post I’ve written an Automator action that allows you to write python scripts directly inside your Automator workflow. “Run Python Script” Automator action (catchy title) is written using Python and PyObjC (now built-in to … Continue reading →

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Mac OS Custom Icons and subversion don’t mix

Posted on September 20, 2006 by schwa

I had some big trouble with subversion today. I had upgraded to subversion 1.4 on both client and server a few days ago and today something went tits up with the repository on the server. I wont go into more … Continue reading →

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WordPressTool

Posted on June 1, 2006 by schwa

Following on from my previous post I’ve uploaded some Python code that talks directly to a WordPress server via MySQL and Sqlobject. WordPressTool downloads all postings into plain text files (one per posting). You can then treat your postings as … Continue reading →

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ExpressionEngine to WordPress

Posted on June 1, 2006 by schwa

I recently migrated this blog from ExpressionEngine to WordPress. This was rather a daunting proposition due to the none existence of tools for doing this. The best I could really hope for was publishing all my content as a large … Continue reading →

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