Design, Coding, and Linux blog by Mehron Kugler
I had a side project to help update a department’s website. The design agency they contracted with delivered the site in PHP and the method of updating the site was uploading new content via FTP. The first thing I did was fetch the content off the server and commit to a local git repo to…
I have been working on a project in which I need to deploy to multiple Windows systems. I’ve written the software in Python; normally, I would clone the package repo via git to the target systems, and set up package dependencies by installing via internet, but I have some restrictions: Firewalled systems can’t pull in…
My assignment was to get the team’s Asana data off of the Asana platform, as the company set a hard date for closing their enterprise account. Since I had done a similar project like this before in Python, and some developers in teams that I interact with also use Python, I chose to use Python…
An enterprise application I am developing for is processing my Python scripts using asteval. Without classes, imports, and other built-ins, this presents some interesting challenges for automated testing.
Doing a few things here: Showing log output in the console Writing log output to a file Set logger level import logging LOG_FILE = “your_log_file.log” logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Set up console handler for logging ch = logging.StreamHandler() # Set up file handler for logging fh = logging.FileHandler(LOG_FILE) # Make the log messages look nice…
Problem: I want to import a file in the same folder Problem 2: I want to import a file from a subfolder Solution: Add folder path to Python’s sys.path
So, why doesn’t nosetests run my newly created test file? Python’s nosetests out-of-the-box looks for test files that are prepended with “test_” test classes that are prepended with Test test cases inside of a test class that are prepended with “test_” However, the test files themselves cannot be marked as executable. Nosetests will ignore executable…
While working on revamping my online portfolio, I wanted a scroll effect after clicking on menu items — the default “jump to” activity was abrupt, and after designing my Celebrity Name Game and becoming spoiled on effects, I thought it was a good move. Turns out, however, that it’s unwieldy to try and get jQuery…
PHP Menu Highlighter – highlight current page in your navigation menu. While developing a website recently, I realized I had already produced the navigation menu in a PHP file and used the include function to pull it into each page, so I needed a way to highlight the current page’s navigation menu item: This uses…