A Generic CLI Dispatcher module for Python May 30, 2007
Posted by samwyse in Scripting.1 comment so far
Here’s a little script that makes it easy to create command line interpreters (CLIs). Creating a CLI framework is one of my usual benchmarks when I learn a new programming language. It usually requires a bit of in-depth knowlege, yet is easy to code in only a day or so. In this case, it took a bit longer but it was worth it in the end because it taught me more about decorators. (more…)
Book info script May 26, 2007
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The Problem
I like books. I like them a lot. Over the years, I’ve collected a large number of books. And now I want to get rid of some of them.
A lot of them I’m giving to Goodwill, but there are several sets that all deal with one topic or another. As I was packing some of these for transport, it occured to me that someone else may want to buy some of my books, so I needed to write an ad. Of course, good ads are packed with useful information about the product being sold, and collecting that data for a collection of random books is a bit labor intensive.
So, I wrote a Python script.
About Linux Meta-distros, part 2 May 11, 2007
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Yesterday, I discussed my experiences with rPath, and the one thing that I dislike about it. (Fortunately, the developers are aware of the problem and seem to be working on it.) Today I’m going to discuss Linux From Scratch, aka LFS.
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About Linux Meta-distros May 10, 2007
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In the beginning, to use Linux you had to download and compile a kernel, and then download and compile any programs that you wanted to use. This was a tedious and error-prone process, so after a while someone came up with the idea of the “distribution”, aka “distro”. This combined a pre-compiled kernel, a selection of other software, and a process for installing everything onto disk. Since the process of building a distro was still tedious and error-prone, many of the largest are supported by commercial ventures, such as Fedora Project (Red Hat), openSUSE (Novell), Ubuntu (Canonical, Ltd) and Mandriva Linux (Mandriva).
