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Using Python and SOAP to attach to a Web ServiceYou can create a Python class from a SOAP WSDL in 4 steps, in about 20 minutes. Create your Python Project Download and install a SOAP library for Python (this how-to will use ZSI’s soap library) Create a base Py...

SQLAlchemy is an open-source Python Database toolkit, which provides the following functionality: It maps relational databases into objects It manages an applications database connections It can create/alter a database layout if it is allowed toThe most powerf...

Windows XP installer does a blue screen of death on installation, with a STOP: 0×0000007B error. Installation fails due to the BSOD and is not recoverable.In this particular instance, it means Windows cannot detect and load the correct harddisk controller driv...

For those that get the “This software requires” AGP card error when running Final Cut on a machine that has a PCI-Expresss video card instead of AGP, there’s a really easy fix: Go to Applications folder Right click on Final Cut Pro HD, choose Show Package Cont...

This web design tip I just read is ingenious and priceless, if we can just get our clients to accept the condensed versions.Speaking generally, Steve Krug's Third Law of Usability states:"Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what'sl...

While looking for something else in the Moodle Forums, I found these links that refer to the underlying way Moodle connects to databases using ODBC.“adodb just harnesses the underlying PHP functions for whatever type of connection you use, so it helps to be fa...

“The Google Chart API returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL. Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.”“You can include a Chart API...

“IBM has a very cool Firefox-only plugin called CoScriptor which is sort of a macro recorder for Firefox:http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter/browse/aboutThere are a variety of scripts available for perusal, use, and editing. Scripts that get create...

Moodle’s language display is controlled by the interaction of two settings: (1) the “Preferred language” in the user’s profile, and (2) “Force language” in the settings for each individual course. The course setting overrides the user’s preferred language. ...

Taken from a PC World article…Open FirefoxType about:config in address bar and press EnterType network.http in the filter fieldDouble-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to bring up the "Enter integer value’ dialog box. Enter a higher number than the de...

This Slashdot article describes the release of version 3.0 of Octave. Afterwards there are some links from the article and a quick search of Octave versus Matlab.“GNU Octave is a free numerical computing environment highly compatible with the MATLAB language. ...

Problem: Suppose you have a CGI script (PHP or otherwise), say genimage.cgi, that generates an image and sends it to the browser. If the user visits the URL of the script and tries to save the generated image, the browser might suggest “genimage.cgi” as the de...

There is some confusion regarding the interplay between forum settings on Moodle. In one place you can set up a forum using group mode (which can be used to send messages to separate groups), but another setting “Forces all members to subscribe.”The question i...

For Plone 2.x, 3.xQuestion:I notice that for a piece of content, both the Owner and the Manager can edit it. Naturally, I assumed that there a permission that allows the role Manager to be able to edit any content it does not own.However, after I assign ALL th...

The Moodle course management system has a feature called “Resource Name Auto-Linking” which as its name indicates, allows Moodle to automatically recognize and create links between site resources. That is, if a user creates a web page titled “Moodle Feature Se...

Section 5 of RFC 1738 – Uniform Resource Locators specifies the format of an HTTP URL:httpurl = "http://" hostport [ "/" hpath [ "?" search ]][definition of hostport omitted]hpath = hsegment *[ "/" hsegment ]hsegment = *[ uchar | ";" | ":...

Problem: If you save a multiple-line text file on Unix (e.g. Linux) and open it on Windows, the text editor ignores the link breaks and shows the content in one giant line.Cause: Different operating systems use different characters to mark the end of line (a.k...

Color-ItThis article is part of a series on choropleth mapping, to see other solutions, please visit the introduction here.Color-It is a choropleth mapping application produced by Zonum Solutions. It essentially is a large SQL database of coordinates for vari...