Xcoders Seattle: How to App Video
These are the “show notes” from my How to App Video talk at Seattle Xcoders, on May 21, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
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It always pays.
I realize this is a very Southern Maryland-centric request, but does anyone out there possibly have an audio or video recording of the ads for the supermarket McKay’s Food Store with their crazy earworm of a jingle? Extra bonus points if you come up with the late-80s/early-90s TV ad with jingle that consists entirely of grocery employees nodding in slow motion at customers, and shaking their hands.
The song:
It always pays to shop at McKay’s,
Where quality is discount every day!
To you and your family,
We give you this guarantee,
It always pays to shop at McKay’s!
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Copy File Path as Text in Mac OS X
Posting this here because I keep needing to recreate it whenever I start using a new machine:
- Open Automator.
- Select the Service template.
- Set options at the top to “Service receives selected files or folders in Finder.”
- Drag over “Copy to Clipboard.”
- Save the service with a name like “Copy Path.”
That’s it! Now you can right-click on any selection in the Finder (even multiple selections) and select Services > Copy Path and then paste the text anywhere you like.
You can also use the keyboard system preferences to assign a custom hot key such as Option-Command-C to the service, so you can invoke it directly.
To do this: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > Files and Folders > Copy Path > Add Shortcut. I usually use ⌥⌘C (but only because ⇧⌘C is default for Go > Computer).
Some details via this post on CNET.
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Django MultiRangeField and MultiRangeFormField
I’m building a website, and needed a way to save a list of pages and page ranges from a book or magazine. I wanted to to be a little more strict than just saving it as a string without any cleanup or validation, so I wrote a custom Django model field (and accompanying form field).
It either just validates and cleans so that
4-33, 43, 45, 60-65, 44, 59becomes the tidy
4-33, 43-45, 59-65…or, if you comment out the raising of the
ValidationErrorin the form field’s validate() method, it will actually clean up any junk characters for you, so even this horrible mess:;4-33, 46a fads i44 ,p45ogets cleaned to
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3D Printer Re-calibration
MoreIt’s been six months since we moved to Seattle, so I thought it was finally time to get my 3D printer out of mothballs. Well, at least that giant box full of Styrofoam peanuts.
I hadn’t left it in a great state the last time I used it. ABS plastic had gotten stuck in the […]
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Renaissance 2014 — How to App Video
MoreThese are the “show notes” from my half of the Master Video talk at Renaissance 2014, on January 21, 2014 at 10:30 am.
Mark Boszko
