Interesting Posts

I like teaching to a technical audience, and this has influenced my writing to a large degree: I take pleasure in creating tutorial-style blog articles. I don’t want all this hard work to be buried in oblivion, so I’ve set up a list of posts that are more than just one-off ramblings.

These posts should be reasonably up-to-date in their contents. If you notice any inaccuracies, please do contact me.

Note: Links marked (SO) are my posts/answers at Stack Overflow.

• Converting MDB to CSV using OOo
• Exaile
  • Matroska tagging support
• GIO/GVFS
  • Mounting GIO/GVFS volumes programmatically (SO)
  • Tutorial 1: File operations
  • Tutorial 2: Stream IO
  • Tutorial 3: Launching files
• GTK+
  • Prevent dropping between GtkTreeView rows (SO)
  • PyGTK: Overriding CellRendererText editing behaviour (SO)
  • Unicode with Python 2 and PyGTK
• Pango: Determine if a font is monospaced
• Pasting multi-cell data into GtkSheet (SO)
• Switching workspaces using python-xlib (SO)
• Unicode collation strength values in Java (SO)
• Using matplotlib in a Web application
• UTF-8 explained
• Vim tips
• What is the X11 Secondary selection?
• Win32 Python: getting user’s display name using ctypes