Q: How do I get a python object’s class name? A: Use the object’s __class__ attribute and then get its __name__ attribute. Another python introspection gem, to get an object’s class name just access its __class__ attribute, for example you can define a method to return the object’s name as follows: [code] def […]
Q: How do I get the name of the current python function, I want to output its name as part of some logging information. A: Just import the ‘inspect’ module and call its stack() method to get access to the call stack, for example, to get the name of the current function: [crayon] […]
I have been at software design for quite a while now and UML has been my constant companion for a good part of this time. Whenever I think of UML I think how great it is for helping with software design, but also how more or less uinversely rubbish most of the UML design applications […]
These days most software developers need deal with more than one software development technology and programming language on a day to day basis. This often means that they have to switch back and forth between coding styles, with this in mind I noticed that although the MS coding guidelines for C# in .NET recommend K&R […]
If you use testimonials on magento and then place them onto a page that contains the prototype extension showcase, you may notice that both the testimonial and showcase animation stops working, and that an absolute snow of javascript errors are generated. If this is happens to you, it may be caused by a jQuery […]
In the Software Development game there are always plenty of annoying problems that will just eat up your time, what I really hate is being caught out by the same annoying problem more than once… I have been caught out by this one before so this time I am going to write it down! […]
Surewash have just put their new website live to coincide with the launch of their hand hygine training product at the Matter Private Hospital. This time it was ‘our’ Sinead who designed and built the website which runs atop WordPress and we are very proud of how it looks and performs. Meanwhile, we wish […]
It is a very lucky software developer that doesn’t have to interact with a microsoft windows batch file (.bat) ever now and again, recently my luck ran out and I came across a funny problem: In windows 7, if your batch file does anything interesting (such a registering a COM dll) you may have […]
The Cork News has today launched their new online newspaper. We worked closely with Pride Design to build and deploy the website. It was quite an involved design & build but once again drupal proved to be more than up to the job! A site like this really puts a CMS to the test! […]
Tethras, an innovative Dublin company that provides a cloud based Localization Enginering service for mobile App developers have launched their new website, and to celebrate they are offering $100 off your first purchase for any language! We have worked a lot with Tethras and can heartily recommend their service, so to all you software […]