Bernd Wechner articles - 18 total
Hero to Zero: How Not To Manage Staff Redundancies
Are you suffering a downturn in business? Need to downsize? Well, lend me an ear, and I'll tell you a...
Dumping Data with Python's CSV DictWriter
I really love Python's csv module. But I do wish it was a little better documented. The DictWriter...
Selecting Things in All of the Nominated Categories
I came across a problem this week, that I was sure, had a canonical solution (i.e. standard and...
Updating a Bokeh Graph in a Django Website
With our first simple graph on an existing Django page, the challenge is to update it when the data...
Adding Graphs to a Django Website
Another journey, captured in my journal, that I think is worth sharing. To wit, a story (of learning...
Bringing it all together: Copy With Style
And now the tour is done, all that is left is to present the Copy With Style interface and how it is...
Monitoring HTML Elements For Change
While trying to build a simple clipboard copy button, I found the need to in-line styles if they are...
Copy With Style: JavaScript Curios
As I progress with the notes I took driving The Thing Is ... and I approach completion, slowly I...
Monitoring Performance
(a.k.a. How often shall we defer to the UI?) In my effort to build a simple clipboard copy...
Deferring to the User Interface
When executing long-running JavaScript code the web browser's User Interface (UI) remains...
HTML Style In-lining Performance: And what to do about it
As part of the initially simply project of a copy button on a web page, I discovered a need to...
In-lining Styles Client Side
Wanting to in-line styles, the first port of call, not least given Chrome-based browsers seem to...
Inspecting the Clipboard (on Linux)
Developing a small Javascript library to support copying arbitrary HTML elements to the clipboard...
HTML on the Clipboard: Oh, what shall we copy?
Thus far we've look at the motivations, a first cut and the options when it comes to copying an HTML...
Copy to Clipboard: The Options
We've looked at the motivations, and the legacy solutions, and now we turn to the options for copying...
Publishing a Python Package: What I Wish the Maze of Tutorials Covered
I've written a number of python packages over time for my own use really and I'm so snowed under just...
Copy to Clipboard: First Cut
Following on from motivations ... the background story starts. Some while ago I added a copy button...
The Thing Is: On Awesomeness and Motivation
Have you ever gone down a rabbit hole of research and development trying to solve one small little,...