Monthly Archives: November 2009

Hiding anchor tooltips on hover

Navigation menus on websites most often consist of a list of links. When looking through a menu, it’s not unreasonable for a visitor to have their mouse cursor over some of the menu item links for a few moments as … Continue reading

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Better access to MySQL create view statements

I’ve found that I often create several views that are variations on an initial one, providing a slightly different convenient slice of the data as the need arises. But when a view is created the syntax actually stored can be … Continue reading

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A better way to search for methods of Python objects

Python’s introspection abilities are quite extensive and useful. They are also well-documented, so I won’t go into the basics here. Check out this article if you need a good overview. N.B.: discussion and code below applies to both methods and … Continue reading

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Quick tips for NVIDIA and ATI graphics configuration repairs on Ubuntu

While graphics card and display configuration on Ubuntu has come a long way from the days of always having to edit xorg.conf by hand, I still run into issues now and again. I almost never have problems any more when … Continue reading

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