Tutorials and code
This section of the site contains various tutorials I’ve written to help out or code snippets that I’ve found useful. Hope you find something that is useful for you.
Code snippets
- Basic CGI example – python
- A very very very basic CGI example
- Convert binary and decimal number representation – python
- Can be useful in some cases
- Create new msg in Mailsmith – applescript
- A handler for creating a new email message in Mailsmith
- Get time and date – python
- Get a formatted version of the current time
- New MacJournal entry – applescript
- Create a new entry in MacJournal
- Send email – python
- Simple, basic send email script
- Split document – python
- Split text string on first empty line
- Using PIL to read IPTC – python
- Use the PIL library to read IPTC info from a photo
Tutorials
- A subversion mini-tutorial
- If you have never used subversion before this short tutorial can get you up and running in a few minutes.
- What is a “text editor”?
- Quick description on the difference between a text editor and a word processor
- Python tutorial 01
- An introduction
- Python tutorial 02
- Basic file operations
- Python tutorial 03
- String operations
- Python tutorial 04
- A first example – attempt one
- Python tutorial 05
- A first example – attempt two
- Python tutorial 06
- A first example – attempt three
- RapidWeaver and Greybox
- How to use Greybox on pages in RapidWeaver