Srini's Point of View

My thoughts on technology, food and other fancies…

GNU Screen on Mac OSX

Did you know Gnu Screen came default with your macs? I did not know that!!
I wanted to run one of my python scripts remotely on my mac mini to detect duplicates in my image library. As this would take some time, I didn’t want to leave the session …

Python development setup on Mountain Lion - part 4

Setup Git on mountain lion to use github to save your projects

Continuing on my series, today we will be setting up git on our newly upgraded Mountain Lion.
Go ahead and download the latest version of git from here. Go ahead and install it. Next go and open an …

Easy Date Math in Python

I was trying to figure out exactly when does 6 months end from a given date. Well one can just count the days and find out but I thought python would be a good way to do it quickly. Here is one way to do it…

>>> from datetime import date …

Southern Fried Chicken

I had some craving for some fried chicken the other day and didn’t want to wait an entire day for marination. So looking around on the Internet I found Paula Deens recipe which was quick to make!

Here is my take on it.

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Python development setup on Mountain Lion - part 3

Eclipse setup to use python in a virtualenv

Today I will cover how to setup eclipse to use the python virtual environment we created in part 2 of this series.

When you first launch eclipse, create a new workspace and call it something relevant. I called it python273 and created …