Database migration using SQLAlchemy

Recently I found a script to migrate between SQLite and PostgreSQL on Lazy Crazy Coder's blog. It's pretty cool, especially as it shows the flexibility of SQLAlchemy in this case used as a middleware.

You can download the script here.

Python for Scientific Calculations

I recently do a lot of mathematical computation, using MATLAB, unfortunately MATLAB is not open-source and fairly expensive to buy. There is a open-source reimplementation of the MATLAB language called GNU Octave. But I never really liked it, mostly because of the missing visualization features compared to MATLAB.

So I started to look for [...]

Ucplib status update

I'm currently working on a cleaner API for ucplib. I got some pretty good ideas and started merging my work with another library which is doing basically the same. The current code can be found at launchpad.net

RestructuredText in WordPress at hostpoint.ch

Here is a small tutorial on how to get the RestructuredText WordPress Plugin working at Hostpoint.ch:

Preparation At hostpoint.ch each <user> has folder where all it's content lives. Where <user> is your hostpoint username. This folder is /home/<user> . It's the same folder you see as "/" if you connect via FTP. We create [...]

ucplib now at launchpad

I finally put ucplib up at launchpad. It is still experimental and some changes are likely to happen! But some people asked me if they can have a look at the code so I decided to put this early version up!

You can find it under: https://launchpad.net/ucplib/

If you have ideas for improvement or [...]

New ucplib for Python

As part of my work refactoring PySMS I decided to abstract some parts into separate libraries. The first victim of this is the UCP message parser and creator.

Until now it was a bit of a bricolage. The functionality it had was very specific to the SMS Server and it was not easy to [...]

Use Django ORM as standalone

Recently I had to write a tools which acts on data stored in a database managed by Django. As I didn't want to implement the whole logic around the database I opted to use the Django ORM in my external tool. [...]