Archives for: January 2011
Text searching files with known extensions
January 25th, 2011A while ago I wrote a blog article about Searching file contents under Windows XP. I was wondering why my searches of Visual Studio Project files with the extensions .vsproj, .vsprops and .sln files were coming back with no results. I read my previous ar… more »
Compiling omniORB 4.1.5 and omniORBpy 3.5 with Python 2.7
January 24th, 2011Python 2.7 (final) was released on 3rd July 2010, which is almost half a year ago. One of the awful things about Python is that major releases are not compatible with each other. That is the extension modules compiled against Python 2.6 do not play nicel… more »
Simple Python example programs with explanations
January 19th, 2011Been doing a lot of Python programming recently and have found that I keep writing the same kinds of utilities. I thought I'd define them all here in functions so that I could cut and paste them as and when I need them. If you're lucky I'll write a littl… more »
Editting the N900 custom dictionary
January 11th, 2011Nokia's N900 has quite a nifty way of helping you type. If you enter a word during an SMS, an email or on a web page it tries to predict what the word will be an gives you the option to auto-complete.The phone has 3 dictionaries to help do this. The… more »
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