KoolReport does not look up its root path correctly. Here’s a fix.
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Copy an empty Directory Structure
This is a MacOS compatible version using Python to copy a directory structure.
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On Learning Python Programming Introduction Let’s start with an overview of some common aspirations that people have when it comes to Python programming. There are many reasons why people might choose to learn Python programming, but some common aspirations include: Data Analysis Python is a popular language for data...
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I’ve regularly some little Windows applications that I need to run on MacOS. Normally, I’d use a virtual machine, but there are some utilities where I’d really like to have them more immediately. Here is how I do it.
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I also created a script that takes the currently selected BusyContacts contact and creates a task in OmniFocus.
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I’ve created a little AppleScript that copies the mail contents and attachments into an OmniFocus task. It also creates a back-link into the OF task, and a forward link as a MailTags note.
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Here is a simple way to get the weather from the console. $ weather Pieniezno Weather for City: Pieniezno, Poland _`/””.-. Moderate or heavy rain shower ,\_( ). 20 °C /(___(__) ↑ 7 km/h ‚‘‚‘‚‘‚‘ 7 km ‚’‚’‚’‚’ 2.7 mm ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Fri 29. Jul ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │...
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We’ve just finished a field study looking at the ability of less than two-year olds starting to learn Perl and Regular Expressions. To avoid any gender bias, we have focused on the female population. From a statistical point of view, we have been able to get 100 % participation...
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I am probably overly abusing Better Touch Tool. As an example, while reading a book in Full Screen mode with Skim, I want to create different types of annotations but I do not want to use the menu or even the keyboard to switch annotation types. I want to...
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Now after I’ve ended up about 700 times to always do the same thing: In BibDesk, add a “Note” field to a publication, copy my template for that note field, paste it into the publication, then copy and paste the URL I want to refer to into the right...
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