Starting a new Python project usually involves a familiar collection of setup tasks: None of this is particularly difficult. It is simply repetitive. py-proj-init is an open-source scaffolding tool that automates the project initialization process. It runs on Linux and … Read More
Need to manage a config file to pass run parameters into an application? Check out this new package, released in June 2025. I have been using this code for 3 years and finally decided to package it and make it … Read More
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
*** 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
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
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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
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
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