Tag Archives: Python

Fixing Gnome Notification’s Popup Location

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Gnome notifications popup in the lower left corner of your desktop by default* which constantly annoys me. I usually have a terminal open in the lower left corner, and having my work covered by notifications is quite annoying. Luckily the … Continue reading →

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Listing All Passwords Stored in Gnome Keyring

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Michael Schurter

I was toying with writing my first desktop application in years and got distracted by how cool Gnome Keyring is. Of course storing and retrieving passwords is pretty mundane, so here’s a fun example that dumps all of the current … Continue reading →

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Kyle Waremburg

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Michael Schurter

When I worked at Tremont Community Schools, Kyle was still a student, but he helped build Firewall Admin, a Linux desktop that spanned 9 monitors, and many robots. He’s now blogging, and I can almost guarantee he’ll always be doing … Continue reading →

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Introducing Hzzah!

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Michael Schurter

from the I-can-haz-a-search-engine department… Update: Sorry about the tacky donate link all. I tried to hide it from feed readers with WordPress’s <!–more> feature, but evidently that doesn’t apply to feeds. When it comes to market share, Google is to … Continue reading →

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WordPress Rocks at Updates

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Michael Schurter

I feel I owe it to my friends who put up with my senseless Python fanboying to admit WordPress is not only a great blog engine, but rocks at updates. I just upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6 by doing a … Continue reading →

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Common Django Typo in URLconf

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Michael Schurter

If you’re hacking Django and get this… ImproperlyConfigured: Error while importing URLconf ‘proj.app.urls’: ‘tuple’ object is not callable …you’re probably missing a comma in your URL configuration as Rajesh Dhawan pointed out. Django pros can move along, I know you … Continue reading →

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