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Quick and Easy Image Zoom Using JQuery

I maintain/manage some Websites that are developed by outsiders.  Some of them are stuck (for one reason or another) using older tools and software packages … namely Microsoft FrontPage.  In one of the websites, in particular, the previous method of showing a larger/zoomed-in version of an image was to open a new tab or browser [...]

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Social Bookmarking (Web 2.0) using old Web technology

I have an old Linux server that sits, sad and muted, unused in a corner. I decided to blow the dust off of it, and see what I can wrangle out of it.
For the morbidly curious: it’s a Fedora Core 1 install, running on a Dell Poweredge server. It has a crusty [...]

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My new pet project … er, website.

I’ve seen a lot of these “viral networking” websites that are designed to get traffic to your web site.  I’ve also seen a bunch of websites that help (or at the very least, provide tools) to build your referrals in places like traffic exchanges and other online tools.
Since I’ve run into some difficulties during the [...]

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Python Round Up

I really haven’t spent much time looking around at Python blogs/pages/etc lately.  But, since I’m procrastinating from the whole NaNoWriMo thing, I spent time today doing that.

Easy Python decorators –some examples of creating Python function decorators using the decorator module.
Python 3 Patterns and Idioms –early development of an open source book to discuss patterns and [...]

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Sending HTML Email From Python

I forget where exactly I found this, but the other day I needed a quick Python method to send an HTML email — in my case, it was in response to a Web CGI request, but this example below is usable anywhere.  The bits that need to be changed for different situations should be evident [...]

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