George Zhang

Pelican cache module (cache.py) is relatively independent of other modules.

Typogrify Python package is automatically called within Pelican when the setting TYPOGRIFY is true.

Pelican has a very nice documentation site.

Pelican comes with a nice command line tool pelican-quickstart.

The Pelican source code has a related_posts attribute defined in the Generator class.

I am reading Pelican source code.

Articles on this website before this one are all written in markdown format.

This site has been online for more than one year.

The Pelican documention has a short section on ATOM/RSS feed.

Some Python code I read yesterday uses dictionary methods copy and update.

This page has a collection of web links that I visit often.

This static blog site started on Github one year ago on April 1, 2009.

Geany is a lightweight editor mainly for programmers.

I have been studying Flask web framework for some time.

When I am reading a realpython article Working With JSON Data in Python, I find an interesting python technique that reminds me something else I read before.

I am reading Miguel Grinberg’s Flask Mega Tutorial and Flask Web Development book and converting OpenSignTool to a flask app.

I am working on a personal project putting my OpenSignTool Inkscape python extension app online.

I am reading Eloquent Javascript book by Marijn Haverbeke.

This post is an update on what I am working on.

I recently spent sometime reading two Linux command line books.

Python doctest is easier to use than unittest and pytest.

William Shotts’ The Linux Command Line is an excellent book.

Pyenv is the tool I use to install multiple versions of python in Linux, and I have a short post on how to install pyenv.

Django model and form validation is a somewhat complicated and confusing topic in Django app development.

Grep command searches file contents to find lines that contain a pattern.

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines pagination as “the action of paging”.

Django messages app is used to “display one-time notification message to the user after processing a form or some other types of user input.”

Django view “is simply a Python function that takes a web request and returns a response.”

Django has a built-in template system.

I have been using Xubuntu since version 17.10.

This post describes some good python resources that I found useful.

Django model fields are descriptors.

WSGI is an abbreviation for Web Server Gateway Interface, which is a “simple calling convention for web servers to forward requests to web applications for frameworks written in Python.”

Andrew Pinkham’s Django Unleashed is a very good Django book.

This website is created with Pelican and Bootstrap, both of which are open-source software.

At-A-Glance DayMinder Monthly Planner 7” x 8-3/4” Version had been my calendar for a few years.

The python default installation in Ubuntu is a stripped down version.

Inkscape software is easy to install in both Windows and Ubuntu.

Horizontal and vertical curves are important concepts in a highway design class.

Python has a standard library module logging which is a very useful development tool.

Most office workers more or less deal with PDF files.

One of my work tasks requires me to save hundreds of emails in my work Gmail account to PDF files in local hard drive.

Argparse module was in Python version 3.2 and up.

Ubuntu/Linux Mint comes with a stripped down version of Vim.