http://blog.dispatched.ch "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."          Li Jun Fan Yuen Kam Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:07:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, a dear friend of mine came up to me and asked about the Python module binascii - particularly about the methods hexlify() and unhexlify(). Since he asked for it, I'm going to share my answer publicly with you. First of all, I'm defining the used nomenclature: ASCII characters are being written in ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/12/09/pythons-binascii-hexlify-unhexlify/ It's finally time to announce at least some news: I've got myself a new means of locomotion - no more procrastinating and slacking, because there's just no train when I need one(; More importantly no more driving on Swiss ice on only two wheels! Pictures will do the proper talking, even ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/11/10/backlogmini/ Lotus Notes has a nifty feature to lull managers into false safety: for volatile/unsafe e-mails (or users), it let's you disable printing/forwarding and copying to clipboard. This can be done using rules, on the SMTP server and on a per e-mail basis. When writing somebody you really don't trust with ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/06/29/disable-mail-forwardin-for-lotus-notes-with-python/ I just released my newest program - pTwittery.com It's now online, but still in beta stage. With pTwittery.com you may export all your tweets (aka timeline) into a diary. Your personal diary will then be sent to you via e-mail. Enjoy, everyone(; If you liked this article, please feel free to re-tweet it and ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/06/25/ptwittery-release/ Unfortunately my SUN Fire 280R has left me for good last friday. Let's all give it a silent two minutes.. After a couple of dear years - spent configuring a nice little Solaris 10 setup, all I have left are a couple of zip files and sql dumps that were supposed ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/06/25/server-outage/ Finding the perfect IDE for Python isn't an easy feat. There are a great many to chose from, but even though some of them offer really nifty features, I can't help myself but feel attracted to VIM anyway. I feel that no IDE accomplishes the task of giving the comfort ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/24/vim-as-python-ide/ Juno is an incredibly lightweight webframework. Using Python as backend, it fullfills my very need for just about every small application I want to deploy against the web. It has no need for big runtimes on the server, no files to configure a great many files and most importantly: there's ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/18/juno-on-solaris-10/ What good is a weblog if one doesn't keep track of the most important changes in life, at least? A great many things unfolded recently, so here we go. First of all, it's time to propagate that I'm writing using a new domain. The name gefechtsdienst.de was a remnant of old ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/03/relentless-resourcefulness/ Sometimes I wonder what kind of IT consultants are employed in the movie industry. The particular incident is taken from the  CBS series Jericho that I just started watching. This series tells the tale about nuclear bombs going off in the US and how a small town copes with the ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/04/13/it-geek-fail/ Recently my life has been a hype; partly due to my upcoming Python addiction. There's simply no way around it; so I should better confess it in public. I'm in love with Python. It's not only mature, businessproof and performant, but also benefits from sleekness, great performance and is just ... http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/03/15/webscraping-with-python-and-beautifulsoup/