Category Archives: Python

A complete and utter starter Python script

Posted on 2011-01-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

A friend said that it was the duty of a computer scientist to learn a new computer language a year and asked me to introduce him to Python. Ignoring the fact that he’ll probably outstrip my two-year-old Python abilities in … Continue reading →

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Python script to rename all tracknames in a gpx file with the first trackpoint date

Posted on 2011-01-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

[LATER EDIT: please don’t use this script – see here for an improved version] At last, I’m posting here what I think to be a useful script. It is, however, more of a hack since for brevities sake and lack … Continue reading →

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Emacs heaven

Posted on 2011-01-06 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Peter Vasil just revolutionised my life (again) when he took me through the Emacs starter kit and showed me his copy of the PeepCode Meet Emacs screencast. So much works out of the box, I don’t now remember what the … Continue reading →

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