Monthly Archives: January 2008

Debugging Pylons Code with Winpdb

For the past week or so I’ve been really digging into Python and Pylons, seeking a lot of things all at once: A creative outlet for long-unexercised programming appetites; new and potentially better ways to tackle the old problems than the mess of complex pain that Java has become; a test to see how my [...]

Really Bad Software on Photo-printing Sites

I’m just in shock that it’s such a painful and buggy process to get a photo book printed on Shutterfly, Snapfish or Ofoto. After wasting a painful hour struggling with each, I gave the nod to Snapfish because I was actually able to get what I wanted in the end. But it wasn’t pretty. I’ve [...]

Easy and Accurate Import of Contacts to Thunderbird from Outlook

Sometime over the past few years, my Outlook registry got messed up and nothing can find its address books — including Thunderbird. Since I still keep my canonical contacts in Outlook (I’m trying to give that up, truly) I periodically need to sync it over to TBird and GMail.   Gmail’s easy — just do [...]