Category Archives: programming

RESTful API Design

Posted on March 23, 2013 by kpd

I just stumbled on Geert Jansen’s book ‘Thoughts on RESTful API Design.’ Here he has documented things he learned while designing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization API. The nice thing is that the source to the book is on github … Continue reading →

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Rynsc on Windows 7 Under Cygwin

Posted on November 2, 2010 by kpd

Getting rid of permission denied errors in rsync under Windows 7 Continue reading →

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Sequence from every Nth Item of another Sequence

Posted on October 2, 2010 by kpd

The phrase ‘every Nth item‘ may be off here, but it is close enough what I want to do (reduce a data set for charting purposes). # data = sequence of data items # nth = you want every nth … Continue reading →

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In-Application Customer Feedback

Posted on September 12, 2010 by kpd

Matt Wilson asked about ‘awesome web-apps to let customers suggest/vote/comment’ on upcoming features.‘ This gave me the idea to post about ErgMate’s in-application feedback mechanism. In addtion to sending an email to the support mailbox, there are two other ways … Continue reading →

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Restful Interfaces to 3rd-Party Websites in Python

Posted on January 18, 2010 by kpd

Here are the slides and examples from my Code Mash 2.0.1.0 talk: Restful Interfaces to 3rd-Party Websites with Python (PDF) examples.tar.gz

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(Unofficial) Concept 2 Online Logbook REST API

Posted on November 11, 2009 by kpd

My unofficial interface to the Concept 2 Online Logbook is ready. This allows one to programmatically get information from the logbook (such as your total meters rowed to date) or to add workouts to the logbook from another program. For … Continue reading →

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Test Driven Development in Python

Posted on January 22, 2007 by kpd

The slides from my Code Mash presentation on Test Driven Development in Python are now online at: http://powertwenty.com/kpd/downloads/TestDrivenDevelopmentInPython.pdf It is an introduction to TDD, some tools that work well when doing TDD in python, and the results of a case … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on CodeMash 2007

Posted on January 19, 2007 by kpd

Wow, CodeMash turned out to be a fabulous conference. The atmosphere was one of learning from others in a friendly way – people checked their religious wars at the door. It was a fun conference. Feeling a little under the … Continue reading →

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Code Mash – TurboGears

Posted on January 18, 2007 by kpd

Just finished listening to Kevin Dangoor’s talk on TurboGears at Code Mash. His talk was a general overview of TurboGears features. While I’m in the middle of prototyping a TG application, there were a few things I wasn’t aware of: … Continue reading →