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Comment on RGB to Hex (and why the python interactive mode is so damned handy) by sameer

sameer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:42:28 +0000

Eric, you might want to use

return “#%02X%02X%02X” % (r,g,b) to get a 0 to show up as 00

Comment on GStreamer: accurate duration by Kwikrick

Kwikrick — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:56:32 +0000

Thanks, this is just what I was looking for…

Comment on Why Php sucks (and I still use it) by LS

LS — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:16:01 +0000

Yes, PHP suck,.. I use it,.. but it sucks!! really sucks!.. if you don’t use a framework (ej: Symfony, Zend, etc) sucks more,.. Sessions have a magic rare behaviour, OOP?? LOL… is simply based on a bunch of functions,… variables?? LOL, magic methods? there are just official workarounds, debugers / IDE.. you have to use 5 tools at least to reach 10% of the IDE of other languajes… I got a certification in php but is a pain in the ass doing big project with it…

ASP.NET, Java, FLEX are much better…

Comment on 21 by Zef Hemel

Zef Hemel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:52:36 +0000

Congrats!

Comment on GStreamer: accurate duration by Bas Westerbaan

Bas Westerbaan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:34:03 +0000

The fakesink keeps accepting (in some sense), so it runs as fast as possible. It takes a second or so.

Comment on GStreamer: accurate duration by dismal_denizen

dismal_denizen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:02:33 +0000

Inaccurate durations are really a bummer when using GStreamer, especially when making some sort of seeker. Does the solution presented here take time equal to the duration of the MP3 file to run? (I’m using Ruby, and I don’t want to install the dependencies for your Python script).

Comment on Django annoyances: no reverse select_related by Bas Westerbaan

Bas Westerbaan — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:07:29 +0000

Yeah, that is what I was thinking about. However, it’s still a waste to have to fetch all comments, when possibly only displaying 30 of them. (You changed the direction of the reference in your code).

Comment on Django annoyances: no reverse select_related by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:31:16 +0000

You can work around it using select_related to retrieve comments to the pages, and then combine them in the python code using groupby.

from django.utils.itercompat import groupby

comments = Comment.objects.filter(**kwargs).select_related(’page’)
pages_with_comments = dict(groupby(comments, lambda t: t.page))

Comment on Django annoyances: no reverse select_related by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:08:37 +0000

Its something thats been bugging me for quite some time, and just lately its become quite a nusance. If django gracefully degraded and gave you appropriate manual controls for this exact sort of thing it wouldn’t be so bad. But I can’t seem to work that bit out quite yet.

Comment on Python Url Encoding by Sven

Sven — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:02:03 +0000

Thanks for this code snippet. On my device a don’t have urllib, thus your approach saved my day