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December 28, 2010
Determining my most used focal length in photos with python and dcraw
For the holidays I got a new Canon 7D camera. I’ve been saving quite a few amazon gift cards over the last year that I was previously planning on using towards purchasing the camera but thankfully Santa delivered me one. My current lens collection consists of
10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 70-200mm f/4 50mm f/1.8 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (kit lens) The lens collection has been built over the last 4 years from when I first got my Canon Rebel XT and I’ve been fairly happy with them thus far.
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September 26, 2010
Python pip on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
Lately I’ve been reading up on Django a bit in an effort to get back into programming. It seems the preferred way of running Django is inside a virtualenv environment. I try to stick to packages when possible for installing applications and saw that the python-virtualenv package wasn’t too far behind at version 1.4.5, where the latest is at 1.5.1. This appeared at first to suit me just fine until I discovered the version of pip that gets installed along with python-virtualenv is at 0.
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January 24, 2010
Python Quote module
Over the past couple of years I’ve been wanting to learn Python more seriously but really haven’t sat down and just done it. I’ve written a couple of various scripts for personal and work use but always felt they weren’t coded in a “pythonic” way. I’m now reading Learning Python (4th edition) from the beginning and making sure I learn things properly from the ground up. When I was writing my code in the past I wasn’t aware of what objects were immutable vs mutable or how generators worked.
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