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  • 15th August 2020

PyTest - A Journey Of 3 Years

Salt is ending a journey that started 3 years ago with the first pull request to add support for PyTest. In the upcoming weeks, Salt will finally switch to PyTest as its sole test runner, and the previous, and heavily customized unittest runner, runtests.py, finally reaches EOL. Why? …

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  • 27th December 2012

PyLint + Virtualenv

I don't have the time to write the full blog post, so, here's the recipe! …

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  • 23rd January 2012

Using gettext in compiled Qt ui files with PySide

This recipe is based on the PyQt recipe found here. This is just the PySide port of it. In some cases you might find yourself in the situation of wanting to use gettext in a PySide project in which you have .ui files generated using QtDesigner. For those kind of situations is a good idea to extend the PySide compiler. …

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  • 3rd July 2011

Postgres Cron Backups

So, I found myself with the need to make automatic backups of my postgres databases... After some Google'ing and reading of some peoples recipes, here's mine. …

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  • 18th February 2011

Maverick Bluedevil and Null pin Mouse's

So, I was trying out Kubuntu Maevrick and found out that my bluetooth mouse did not work anymore as it previously did with Jaunty... …

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