Ian's TechBlog

I document my adventures and problems so that I remember my mistakes, and perhaps you may learn something.
I'm not a programmer, nor a computer expert.
I'm just a tinkering guy in Milwaukee with a store and three kids to keep me busy.

Friday, December 28, 2012

From raw idea to useful source code

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A couple months ago I had an Idea. I even blogged about it : A lookup service for US National Weather Service codes. Those codes are neces...

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Very Simple Database in Python

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Experimenting with big lookup tables for my weather code lookup server. Instead of using a big configparse file, I want to try a small datab...

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Dbus Tutorial - GObject Introspection instead of python-dbus

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Introduction Introspection Network Manager Create a Service GObject Introspection In previous posts, I have looked at using the pytho...

GeoClue vs Geocode-Glib

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This post has been superseded by a more recent post with updated information. GeoClue, used in Gnome and Unity, is a Dbus service that...

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Dbus Tutorial - Create a service

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Introduction Introspection Network Manager Create a Service GObject Introspection A dbus service is usable by other applications....

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Python 3: Using httplib2 to download just a page header

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I want to use the National Weather Service geolocator for my private weather script. When my laptop moves to a new location, the script a...

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Python3 configparse

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configparse is a Python Module, part of the standard library, that read and writes config files and treats them almost like python dictionar...

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