Jason Stitt

Call me ~~Ishmael~~ Jason Stitt. Happy web developers are all alike; ~~unhappy~~ creative ones are always coming up with something different. And it is a truth universally acknowledged that, once in possession of a high-level scripting language, they must be in want of a fortune. More or less.

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How to find matching color art prints and posters While contrasting colors in art prints and posters can brighten up a room, matching colors or monochromes can create a very consistent theme and give a designed look.	PostersByColor Audience: Decorators
Group a list into chunks in Python More than once I've had to take a list of items and group them into tuples. Here's the code.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Designing with bright, contrasting colors If it matches your sense of style, nothing livens up a room like some contrast. High-contrast art prints and posters stand out; it's no good using them for subtle background decorations.	PostersByColor Audience: Decorators
YouTube video embedding with XSLT XSLT can be used to expand a simple <youtube> XML element into a full, XHTML-compliant <object> element that embeds a YouTube video.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Tips for decorating with earth tones When you decorate with earth-tones, the result can't help but tug at our memories of the outdoors. Soil, clay, trees, lakes, and the sky are all represented in this palette of mainly browns, tans, greens, blues, grays, off-whites, and certain rich reds.	PostersByColor Audience: Decorators
What is complementary color? Explains the concepts behind complementary color, which can create color schemes that really "pop" through the use of contrast. Gives several examples of art prints and posters that have complementary colors to each other.	PostersByColor Audience: Decorators
Pylons deployment with Lighttpd and Flup What's fast, easy to set up, and good for running web applications? Lighttpd and Pylons!	Countergram Audience: Developers
Show your IP address using a Lua/Lighttpd script Sometimes it's useful to be able to determine your external WAN IP address from a script. Here's a simple Lua/Lighttpd approach.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Pylons multiple-domain (virtual hosting) configuration How to run more than one Pylons app, on different domains, in the same Python process.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Pylons apps on Google App Engine This will show you how to get a Pylons web app running on Google App Engine in about 15 minutes, assuming you already have a GAE account and a passing familiarity with Pylons and virtualenv.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Managing multiple Pylons apps with Supervisor Supervisor is a well-documented, convenient process manager that can help you wrangle multiple long-running processes like Pylons apps and lighttpd.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Pylons from scratch 1: a barebones app Creating by hand what code generation would ordinarily do for you helps you understand Pylons and port existing apps to the Pylons deployment scheme.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Create Pylons filters: middleware the configurable way Using Pylons (or Paste Deploy), filters are a configurable way to apply WSGI middleware to your application without code changes.	Countergram Audience: Developers
Rename your Pylons app without going mad Eventually, you realize that the name you gave your Pylons app conflicts with another package, or just needs to be changed. Here's what to do.	Countergram Audience: Developers
GMP bignums vs. Python bignums: performance and code examples Sample code for n-choose-k in Python, C using Python bignums, and C using GMP. Guess which one is fastest?	Countergram Audience: Developers