Python Monty

I am a decent user of the terminal, but I am not strong at remembering find flags - or rsync, or grep for that matter.

You’ve been there - after putting your backpack in a frigid car, walking against the Wisconsin wind, or biking across the frozen lake, you arrive at work.

These are the slides from a talk I’m giving at Chippewa Valley Code Conference this weekend.

When I started my new job, I was provided a new MacBook Pro to use as my work computer.

We are in the middle of a “stuff” revolution.

I originally wrote this for a tutorial on learnxinyminutes.com, which attempts to teach you the basics of a new programming language.

Table of Contents Part 1: How to Tell If an Appliance Is Running Part 2: Current Sensors and Burden Resistors Part 3: Connecting to the Pi and Building a Voltage Divider Part 4: A Low-Pass Filter and Reading From Laundry Appliances Part 5: A Measurement A…

Table of Contents Part 1: How to Tell If an Appliance Is Running Part 2: Current Sensors and Burden Resistors Part 3: Connecting to the Pi and Building a Voltage Divider Part 4: A Low-Pass Filter and Reading From Laundry Appliances Part 5: A Measurement A…

Table of Contents Part 1: How to Tell If an Appliance Is Running Part 2: Current Sensors and Burden Resistors Part 3: Connecting to the Pi and Building a Voltage Divider Part 4: A Low-Pass Filter and Reading From Laundry Appliances Part 5: A Measurement A…

Table of Contents Part 1: How to Tell If an Appliance Is Running Part 2: Current Sensors and Burden Resistors Part 3: Connecting to the Pi and Building a Voltage Divider Part 4: A Low-Pass Filter and Reading From Laundry Appliances Part 5: A Measurement A…

The time indicators on my washer and dryer are notoriously unreliable.

I like listening to RainyMood while I work to keep focused.

Bartaco, West Hartford, CT I grew up 10 miles from here, in the hills of northwest Connecticut.

Mel had a conference in DC this weekend, right in the Woodley Park/Adams Morgan neighborhood.

Acorn, RiNo, Denver The drive to Acorn is unreal compared to other neighborhoods in Denver.

Sexy Pizza - South Pearl, Denver I took a 5K sunset hike in Morrison, CO, today, a solid 20 minutes beyond surburban Denver and into the foothills.

I’ve been wanting to do this for some time, and I think I’m taking the plunge - you’ll start seeing restaurant reviews on here as well as code.

I do love to cook.

Next up, a departure from my usual programming entries to another hobby - cooking.

Last October, I began recording temperatures for my homebrew setup.

Last October, I began recording temperatures for my homebrew setup.

I recently switched from a dedicated Windows 7 PC for my home server to a Mac Mini, mostly for the better electricity consumption and the fact the the PC was having nightly bluescreen crashes and restarting.

I switched from Octopress to Jekyll.

There’s a great package manager for Mac called Homebrew that acts sort of like Aptitude on Ubuntu; it makes it really easy to quickly install software for your Mac from the command line.

Using Python to Pay Parking Tickets An enterprising fellow from Milwaukee built a site to automatically pay parking tickets in his city and in Madison.

Part 2: Getting the Python EWS Client to Send an Email Now that I’ve got a client connect to the Exchange server, I can actually use the SOAP API methods as documented in the WSDL and on Microsoft’s documentation.

From this post, I learned how to write a little shell script that uses cURL to check to see if I’m connecting to the Exchange Web Services server correctly.

Creating an Internal Emailing Wikibot in Python You know how they say that when all you have is a hammer that everything looks like a nail?

A First Toast By which, I clearly meant post.

A few weeks ago, I embarked on a project to monitor the temperature of my homebrews as they ferment and bottle-age.