You may have noticed, prior to this, my blog posts have looked like a wall of text. That’s because Jinja (Templating engine) was stipping newlines. To resolve this issue, use a custom filter: def BlogPostFilter(value): return value.replace(‘\n’,’\n’) app.jinja_env.filters[‘BlogPostFilter’] = BlogPostFilter {{ blogPost.body | BlogPostFilter }} … I still need to work on whitespace to get[…]
You can manage headless Hyper-V 2012 R2 servers in multiple ways. You can use Powershell. You can manage from the local console, or join an existing domain and use existing infrastructure. You can use PSHVM30 and corefig (use a hacked openRDP for local VM access)(internets) I’ve cobbled together this post, using some process and notes[…]
So I have this great system to automatically update the blog from a list of files when I click a button. Of course it broke while bringing in the latest post about Hyper-V – UNICODE!!! Solution was to decode when reading in from file: with open(blogpost, ‘r’) as bp: body = bp.read().decode(‘utf-8’)
So i had all the raw text from my blog posts backed up in a flat text file (just a bunch of text). I wanted to be clever and not manually enter each blog post again, so I made a new button and tied it to this grabPosts function: class BlogPostGrabber(): def grabPosts(self): os.chdir(‘/home/colin/blogposts’) for[…]
Original Timestamp: 2014-01-26 21:58:04.803373 Second test!!
Original Timestamp: 2014-02-06 00:09:18.512687 Get going quick – coding for MineCraft on FreeBSD10 # mkdir mineDev # cd mineDev # mkdir craftbukkit # pkg install netbeans *you can accomplish this different ways – this is the newest / easiest (instal # fetch http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/get/02389_1.6.4-R2.0/craftbuk # fetch http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/maven/maven-3/3.1.1/binaries/apache-maven- # mv craftbukkit.jar craftbukkit # tar -xf apache-maven-3.1.1.bin.tar.gz #[…]
Original Timestamp: 2014-02-18 20:48:13.659576 From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7108193/frequently-repeated-try-except-in-python …The best way to abstract exception handling is with a context manager: from contextlib import contextmanager @contextmanager def common_handling(): try: yield finally: # whatever your common handling is then: with common_handling(): os.remove(‘/my/file’) with common_handling(): os.chmod(‘/other/file’, 0700)
Original Timestamp: 2014-01-26 22:04:56.656605 Fifth Post
Original Timestamp: 2014-01-26 22:02:58.632113 unauth EDIT@@@!!!
Original Timestamp: 2014-02-24 05:55:24.274556 Worked tonight to get social media updated when I update the blog. Python makes this super easy… I’ll hopefully get around to writing a lenghtly post about how… (I’d like to do my domain justice and actually explain how) but I’m tired.
