Using gettext in compiled Qt ui files with PySide

This recipe is based on the PyQt recipe found here. This is just the PySide port of it.

In some cases you might find yourself in the situation of wanting to use gettext in a PySide project in which you have .ui files generated using QtDesigner.

For those kind of situations is a good idea to extend the PySide compiler. The following example shows how to do so in a distutils command.

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Postgres Cron Backups

So, I found myself with the need to make automatic backups of my postgres databases…

After some Google‘ing and reading of some peoples recipes, here’s mine.

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DavMail Monit HowTo

I recently started to monitor my servers with monit. As such, I started creating scripts for all services that needed monitoring until I got stuck on one of them DavMail. It did not write a pid file and didn’t even had a specific process name!

This HowTo is meant ...

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Long Live Open-Source

As you can read on a previous post of mine, I was, and still am quite pissed at ATI.

However, being forced to choose from upgrading my favourite linux distribution, Kubuntu, to latest stable version 9.04 and loosing the ATI proprietary drivers, or, staying at the old version of ...

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ATI for Linux

Fuck You ATI!!!!!!

Ever since I bought my laptop which is UNFORTUNATELY attached to an ATI card, I’ve had issues running it on Linux! And now you tell me that you’re dropping support!? This laptop is not 2 years old!!!! Now What!?

If I could, believe me, I ...

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IPython and virtualenv

Recently I started developing my python applications using virtualenv so that I don’t clutter up the system’s python installation with non-system python packages.

Everything was good until I wanted to use IPython instead of python’s shell…

The issue is that virtualenv creates a different python executable that ...

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TextPress Google Adsense For Search Widget

This TextPress widget enables search on your blog using Google Adsense For Search

First, you should go to your Google Adsense account and create the code for Adsense for Search. You must choose to display the results on your own site.

Here are some warnings displayed by the plugin configuration ...

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Wordpress Is Gone For Good

I try to get my applications written in python, this way I’m able to tweak it as needed.

When I thought about putting a blog online, of course, I searched for a python blogging application, but, by that time, I was unable to find one. So, like most users ...

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