Author: Stephen Coursen
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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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How to Make WordPress Run Faster
If you’re running a site that aims to be more than just a small journal or hub for your close friends to go to, you run into the problem of making sure that the site loads quickly and correctly for any visitor. By “correctly”, I mean that it looks the same in all browsers. This […]
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Perspective Broker Authentication for Stackless Python
Twisted Matrix’s Perspective Broker is, to me at least, the main compelling reason to use the entire framework. It’s also an area that is lacking in documentation that is usable to a newbie to the framework. One of the things provided by the Perspective Broker is an authentication framework, based around the concept of an […]
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Multi-Threaded Twisted / Stackless Integration
Another way to integrate Twisted with Stackless python, is to use multiple threads. One thread handles Twisted’s reactor while Stackless tasklets run in at least one other thread. This lowers the deterministic nature of Stackless, but for certain conditions may be more effective than trying to integrate Twisted and Stackless into a single thread. Communication […]
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Observer pattern for Python
The Observer pattern is mainly used to implement a distributed event handling system. The primary objective of this pattern is to provide a way to handle run-time one-to-many relationships between objects in a loosely coupled arrangement.