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2013-05-12 At 11:25 PM

Answering questions on Stackoverflow

The last few days I was answering questions on stackoverflow - mainly related to python and db2. It came out a bit addictive. Now I have 20 answers, raised my reputation to 449 and reached top 10% this week :).

Check my profile at http://stackoverflow.com/users/565525/robert-lujo .

2013-01-18 At 11:33 PM

Destructuring assignment / tuple unpack in Python - by examples

Destructuring assignment (a.k.a. tuple unpack) in Python, seems to be very useful thing. The most basic variant:

»> x,y = 1,2
»> x,y
(1, 2)

what is identical to:

»> x, y = [1,2]
»> x, y = (1,2)

2012-12-15 At 10:02 AM

permset - utility for *nix permissions mgmt based on patterns - release 0.22

Permset is simple standalone utility script to manage *nix permissions on file and directory trees based on patterns. New release 0.22 contains following improvements:

variable substitution for user and group in patterns
short statistics displayed on the pattern listing
documentation improvements

2012-12-11 At 6:34 PM

permset - utility for mgnt of *nix permissions based on patterns

I had just released 0.20 version of permset.

Permset is simple standalone utility script to manage *nix permissions on file and directory trees based on patterns.

Check the example session to get into the idea behind.

2011-09-24 At 7:35 PM

Twitter incremental backup in YAML format - python, HTML get and parse

I use Twitter primarly as a bookmarking service.

I know that Twitter is not bookmarking service and there are specialized services for such needs. In my case, using this way started as an experiment, but later I found this way very convenient.

I wrote a script that enables me to incrementally backup all my tweets in a textual file in YAML format, by parsing HTML Twitter pages. Explanation and the script follows …

2011-09-08 At 11:33 PM

Mercurial branches - ‘named branches’ way - prefered way to do it?

Mercurial provides many ways to do branch based development. I was searchingfor the best in-repo branch solution. I chose named branches …

2011-01-09 At 1:06 AM

How to count characters, bytes and words in Vim

The article provides some information and tips on the subject: how to count characters, bytes and words in Vim.

2011-01-05 At 12:15 AM

Go on windows tutorial (#golang)

Recently I invested some time to learn about new and popular language Go. I wanna give a test-drive, and since I have Windows XP and there is no GO official windows Go port, I needed to do some manual work.