http://blog.dataunbound.com Data Architect, Consultant, Trainer, and Author Raymond Yee on data and software in research and education Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:04:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some good documentation on how to turn Firebug on and off for a given site: Odvarko, Jan. “Software is hard | How to enable and disable Firebug 1.2.” http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/how-to-enable-and-disable-firebug-12/. http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/01/03/turning-firebug-on-and-off/ Here's a first pass at a Chickenfoot script that copies selected Zotero items as HTML to the clipboard.  (I couldn't find anything in the Zotero interface to do exactly this function.  There is a  Create Bibliography from Selected Item(s)->Copy to Clipboard but that seems to copy citations as RTF for ... http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/01/02/copying-to-clipboard-zotero-citations-as-html-w-chickenfoot/ Because the ZooomrAPI was designed to emulate the Flickr API, it shouldn't be that hard to learn once you know the Flickr API. http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/01/01/try-out-the-zooomr-api/ Based on reading the  Python FlickrAPI, I wrote a simple example using the flickrapi library: import flickrapi API_KEY = '[API_KEY]' API_SECRET = '[API_SECRET]' if __name__ == '__main__': # instantiate the flickr object with the API_KEY, SECRET to return ElementTree entities flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key=API_KEY,secret=API_SECRET,format='etree') photos = ... http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/01/01/getting-started-with-flickrapi/ I wish there were a simple way to convert a WordPress post to page -- that is without copying and pasting the content -- but there doesn't seem to be a way in WP right now (at least according to the convert post to page? thread). http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/01/01/wordpress-wish-converting-a-post-to-a-page/ Time to install The Jython Project. I installed both the current version (2.2.1) and the beta version (2.50b). Time to run through the Jython book and the Jython User Guide. http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/01/01/getting-started-with-jython/ Although it seems that you can host Django on dreamhost (Django - DreamHost and JeffCroft.com: Setting up Django on Dreamhost), I might be looking for another host for Django, such as (mt) Media Temple, which is what is used by Django creator Adrian Holovaty for his EveryBlock project. http://blog.dataunbound.com/2008/12/31/django-hosting-options/ Although I plan to be programming primarily  in Python (and JavaScript)  this next year, I don't want to forget about C/C++.  I hope to have an opportunity to use SWIG at some point to connect high-speed code in C/C++ with Python code: SWIG is an interface compiler that connects programs written ... http://blog.dataunbound.com/2008/12/31/swig/ I had been vaguely following Python 3 when Python 3.0 final was released on December 3, 2008. I decide to start coming to terms with what this new and intentionally non-backwards compatible version of Python means by printing out What’s New In Python 3.0 — Python v3.0 documentation and ... http://blog.dataunbound.com/2008/12/31/time-to-study-python-30/ In  the new year,  I would like to deepen my expertise in all-things-Pythonic.  One version I just installed today was Iron Python: IronPython is a new implementation of the Python programming language running on .NET. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest ... http://blog.dataunbound.com/2008/12/31/ironpython-20/