Python app-config Package
Need to manage a config file to pass run parameters into an application? Check out this new packaged, released in June 2025. I have been using this code for 3 years and finally decided to package it and make it … Read More
Publish Python Package with Token
At this moment in time April, 2025, the preferred way to authorize publishing a Python package to PYPI.org is to use tokens, twine and a trusted publisher. For my simple project and my limited skills at setting up a git … Read More
Manage WordPress Plugins with GIT svn
Using git as a source code manager, whenever I need to update a plugin, it is a challenge as I never remember the svn commands. And when I upgraded my computer, I opted not to install svn with the idea … Read More
VS Code & Python Projects
*** these notes are a work-in-progress and will be updated as needed *** This post documents how I set up projects in Python and how to configure VS Code for debugging. Project Structure There are 2 basic forms of project … Read More
Python Sharing Objects across Namespaces
I have an application that runs on Postgres & Mysql. Each program checks to determine the database type and then imports either postgres_db as db_util or mysql_db as db_util. This works without a problem if all code referencing the class … Read More
MySQL and Server Side Cursors
Common wisdom says “MySQL does not support server side cursors”. I searched and did not find anything that indicated this was old information (read on). After a lot of unsuccessful work to get MySQL to handle cursors with 1 million … Read More
Postgress – Fedora 17 Login Problem
Upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 and installed Postgres db as I needed the functionality of a server-side query. After the upgrade, I was unable to log on to phpPgAdmin and in the httpd error log I was seeing … Read More
Create a Child theme based on Zenon Pro
If you are using the WordPress Zenon theme and need to make some heavy customization, you may want to follow the best practices to create a child theme. Unfortunately, the Zenon theme does not support the child themes due to … Read More
Address Parsing Routine
To support a marketing project, I developed a screen scraping program which harvested names and addresses from a county public website and downloaded the information in a csv format. This file was then edited in Excel and mail merged to … Read More
Trimble Standard Interface Protocol (TSIP)
For a recent project, the client required that several remote computers be time synch’ed by a Trimble GPS unit. The software running on the remote computers was written in C++. I was unable to find a generalized routine to get … Read More