Yes! Syntax Highlighting for Mako in TextMate!

For the longest time I kept staring at ‘plain text mode’ while editing Mako templates. No Mas!

TextMate bundle for Mako template has existed.

To install:

• cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/

• svn co http://svn.makotemplates.org/contrib/textmate/Mako.tmbundle

After Reloading your bundle, syntax highlighting is available under HTML (Mako).

Reference:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/922771/syntax-highlight-for-mako-in-eclipse-or-textmate

HTML Quickie: Long String Overflowing Your Div

Do you have that problem? I do.

EDIT(05/31/2009): Even better solutions:

Hyphenator.js: http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/

OR:

General CSS solution:

overflow: scroll

/EDIT

The HTML solution:

use <wbr>. (But you have to figure out yourself where to put the tag)

The IE-specific CSS solution:

word-wrap: break-word

PHP solution:

wordwrap(‘your_very_long_string_here’, 15) // Break after 15 characters

Python solution:

import textwrap

textwrap.fill(‘your_very_long_string_here’, 15) # Break after 15 characters

References:

• http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html
• http://us3.php.net/wordwrap
• http://docs.python.org/library/textwrap.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/320184/who-has-solved-the-long-word-breaks-my-div-problem-hint-not-stackoverflow

The Male Programmer Privilege Checklist

Original Article here: http://lafalafu.com/krc/privilege.html

The article is thoroughly descriptive and I didn’t even realize some of them until I read it.

Pylons Quickie: Mako Output

By default Mako HTML escapes all output.

To NOT have this behavior, change the setting of TemplateLookup in environment.py.

Resources:

• http://www.makotemplates.org/docs/filtering.html
• http://www.makotemplates.org/docs/unicode.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/mako-discuss/browse_thread/thread/535f3223a5f06660

Pylons Quickie: I want to use distance_of_time_in_words

distance_of_time_in_words is a useful function that converts boring looking datetime into something more attractive (and SEO optimized) like: 30 seconds ago.

Pylons gain this functionality via WebHelper which blatantly inspired by Rails.

But, out of the box, this functionality does not exists in my templates. To enable it, I need to add this line in helpers.py:

from webhelpers.date import distance_of_time_in_words

Resource:

WebHelpers Documentation

Laconica: Open Source Twitter

There are so many micro-blogging services nowadays. Sooner or later there will be an open source application for it.

And that application is called Laconica. It is written in PHP.

I haven’t try to install it yet, but it sounds fun.

Resource:

The project’s Trac

SqlAlchemy Quickie: How to use Distinct

distinct() method is accessible from Query object. The documentation is kind of obscure, so hopefully this post is helpful for others.

Example:

 @classmethod
 def get_all_category(cls):
 return meta.Session.query(cls.category).distinct().all() 

Reference:

SqlAlchemy 04 Documentation about Query object

Ruby: A lot of 1 Liners

http://www.rubyinside.com/21-ruby-tricks-902.html

Pylons Cheat Sheet

http://workaround.org/pylons/pylons-cheatsheet.html

Gender Guesser

Fresh from Hacker News comments,

GenderGuesser is a simple webapp that analyze your essays and guess whether you are a man or a woman.