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Sewing the Leading Edge [LE] together… Sew down the seam line [1]. Then sew a second line 3 mm away from the first line [2]. Then fold over the seam and sew again, between the first two lines [3]. This reduces the overall seam size, and gives the thrid sew line 4 layers of cloth […]
Continue ReadingAll of the photos are in the gallery, but the ‘top ten’ pages are very popular, so here are the links: My top ten photos. There is also a tour of the 10 photo’s with the highest votes. The kiting gallery, pictures of us using kites to jump up, over or off things. Nearly all the photo’s on this site […]
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Just finished a new shopping website for kids and teen clothing, accessories, cool speakers, cool funky headphones, bracelets (chunky candy bangles) It’s also got some amazing hand printed tshirts by a local artist. Clothing with attitude.
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I’ve been thinking about making a little board game for me and my 2.5 year old boy to play. My thoughts so far are: A dice would mean that one of us could jump too far ahead to make it interesting. Plus Archie can’t count very well. So maybe writting ‘2’ on one side of […]
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I wanted to show an image uploader (using Zend_Form_Element_File) but when the user was editing the image (replacing it) it showed the current image in the form. For some reason ZF devs won’t let you change the view helper for a Zend_Form_Element_File, so subclassing it and changing the view helper don’t work. There is a […]
Continue ReadingTags: Python, memory leak, leek, object, garbage collection, garbage collector, __del__, inspect, gc, DEBUG_LEAK I have a nasty memory leak in my Python script which I can’t find. For some random projects my script gobbles up 2gig of memory then quietly dies. Here is my first attempt at cobbling together a leak detector: import gc import inspect def dump_garbage(): […]
Continue ReadingSo, I was looking for a picture of a tree and found some nice pictures of fractal trees. That, I thought, would be interesting to code. Here are some of the results. This was coded in C#, each element ( a trunk/branch/twig ) is a fractal, a twig with a length < 3 aborts the […]
Continue ReadingI had a problem with some URLs that we found on someones website. They looked like this: <a href=”http://example.com/../../../path/page.html”>, here is the same link: test. Notice that when you mouse over it, Firefox normalizes the URL so it looks correct. Using urlparse in Python: print urlparse.urljoin( ‘http://site.com/’, ‘/path/../path/.././path/./’ ) ‘http://site.com/path/../path/.././path/./’ How, poopy. So, we need to do better than that. The os module […]
Continue ReadingBeautifulSoup is a python class that takes HTML and returns a tree of objects. You can then search that tree to find HTML tags (which is pretty mega easy.) Here is a little example that downloads the msn.com web page, parses it using BS and grabs all the LINK tags that are linking to a CSS file: from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import urllib2url = “http://www.msn.com” request = urllib2.Request(url) […]
Continue ReadingI like Puzzle, the new music from Biffy Clyro. I really like it. But what the feck does Biffy Clyro mean? They are from Scotland, so I thought maybe it was where they came from. Nope. I did a lot of searches but could find nowt. Eventually I took Trays advice and just asked google, […]
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