Eclipse Juno looks terrible in Linux Mint 13 with the MATE desktop environment. Here’s an example of part of the screen: Everything is big and bulky, the tool bar’s style doesn’t really match the theme’s style. Here are the steps I’ve taken so far to correct this: Create a file called gtkrc, I’ve created […]
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I needed to return all the members of an object as an XML document in Python. I used the ElementTree library to do this. The class in question is pretty basic: It has a constructor, member variables, getters and setters for the member variables, and now this new function. Every Python class has a built-in
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Apparently, it’s necessary to use separate CSS properties for each browser. .unselectable { -webkit-user-select: none; -khtml-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; -o-user-select: none; user-select: none; }
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The Duke URLGrabber package for Python makes it incredibly easy to retrieve files from remote servers, and it abstracts urllib2 for you in a protocol-independent way, so you can focus on your application instead of spending time working with Python’s built-in urllib2. On Windows and Mac OSX, by default, urllib2 (and therefore URLGrabber) will use
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