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Twitter Internal Fragmentation: Python + Twitter

By ⋅ January 25, 2010 ⋅ One comment

As a toy project to play a little bit more with Python and accessing Twitter, I came out with the idea of calculating the Internal Fragmentation of user’s tweet. To interface with Twitter services I used the Twitter extension located at http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/, which has a pretty straightforward API. The script shown below gives you back [...]

Creating an Installer Using NSIS (III)

By ⋅ September 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In this last post about NSIS I am going to describe how to use some of the most useful plugins which will allow you create a pretty decent and featurefull installer for windows. Checking for adminstrator privileges: userInfo::getAccountType Pop $0 StrCmp $0 “Admin” +3 MessageBox MB_OK “Debe tener privilegios de administrador para correr este programa [...]

Creating an Installer Using NSIS (II)

By ⋅ September 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

After playing for a few days with NSIS I have manage to create a full features installer which perform all the actions I needed. These are the following: Download files Unzip Files to a specific folder Execute external installers Modify Environment Variables Since NSIS supports plug-ins there are quite a few available which provide extra [...]

Creating an Installer Using NSIS (I)

By ⋅ September 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Last week I faced a new problem, I had to program a installer for Windows in order to deploy some software we have produced at work. After a quick googling I found NSIS an installer generator, open source and with a simple scripting language. NSIS comes with a compiler which parses the sentences writting in [...]

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