Posts tagged programming

Providing default settings for Django applications

There doesn't seem to be an official way for a Django application to provide default values for its "custom" settings - you just document them somewhere and hope that the users take note. Here is some proof of concept code to automatically inject an application's defaults into Django's settings.

Updating an INI file with AWK

A colleague asked if I knew a way to edit a line in a particular section of a .ini file in a shell script. There are plenty of ways to do this, but my answer is in AWK.

Interactive and Media Programming

The Fun of Programming

The Teaching of Programming

Integrating support for undo with exception handling