Often it is necessary to print an object to debugging log. This small utility function can help to print all properties:
import inspect, pprint
def dprint(object):
props=filter(lambda t: not t[0].startswith('__'),
inspect.getmembers(object, lambda m: not inspect.ismethod(m)))
pprint.pprint(props)
I ‘ve recently created multiselect plugin for APEX 4.1 – there is still little information about how exactly write APEX plugins, and some aspects – like cascading LOV, I have not found explained anywhere, so I’d like to share my experiences here:
To write plugin you will need:
Visual Python or vpython is python library for simple 3D animation, especially useful for animation of simple physical scenes – like pendulum, ball on a spring, movement in gravitational field etc. It is fairly simple to use and gives quite nice animations, which can demonstrate some laws of physics. I actually spot this package, when I saw an article about physics in popular mobile game “Angry Birds – Space”. In that article they had been arguing about physics laws in the game and also referred to vpython, where they made some experiments. I told myself I have to try it myself, so I’ve created small program using vpython. Continue reading Having 3D fun with Visual Python
In some places Internet access is available only via proxy, which in practice means that you are limited to HTTP and HTTPS protocols only. But if you have external email accounts like Gmail, this is bit limiting, because you cannot access your email via IMAP protocol from your email client.
However there can be a solution – if proxy support HTTPS protocol, it means also that it supports CONNECT method that tunnels a connection to remote server unchanged. This method could be used to tunnel any protocol, so basically it could tunnel also IMAP ( and SMTP for outgoing email). Continue reading Accessing IMAP/SMTP via HTTPS Proxy
Aptana studia is a plugin to Eclipse, which contains many useful modules (like PyDev) and amongst many also GIT module. However this module is different than EGit ( and EGit cannot be installed because it conflicts with Aptana Git)so manual on Github is not applicable. So how does it work? On my recent project I’ve tried to use it and here is quick guide how to create project and push it to Github. Continue reading Aptana Studio And Git/Github
When I was starting this site I was looking for a reliable solution to backup the site. I have been looking bit around and found this excellent plugin for WordPress:
BackWPup
This plugin is absolutely awesome, with many features, just mentioning few key ones:
One of customization I’ve done for this WordPress theme was to put label text over search input. I’ve found that quite nice design element and space saving optimization.
Basically there are 2 main approaches: Continue reading Title Over Search Input
Bit more on my old site. Old site was created some 15 years ago, with intent of simple and minimalistic space for some of testing and playing SW projects of mine. It had served me well so I decided to keep a copy also on this server, however I will not transfer all content to new site – mainly because some stuff there is really ancient and I’ve lost interest in it. I may transfer some content, which I consider still interesting or something that I’ll return to..
So my new site is started.
My old site will be still available – either here in full copy or on its original address.
Final decision for CMS was WordPress – why to try something special, when tons of people are happy with it. Hope it’ll be OK for a small site like this. (Some time ago I’ve tried Drupal, but it’s much more complicated, WP seems to be much easier and intuitive. I can easily modify a theme to fit my ideas and also fix some plugins without any in depth knowledge).
So let’s see how it will be going on.
Ivan