Easymail

I needed simple way for sending emails from python (debug info from server app), so I created VERY simple library to wrap smtplib into something more useful. Here is a link:

https://github.com/volftomas/easymail

Claws mail python plugin

I am using Thunderbird right now, but as I got new PC I will be installing Archlinux on it, so I ask myself if it's time to move to something lighter and more extendable by plugins.. as I like Python, using python as plugin language would be great.

I picked Claws-mail which is a great, capable and lightweight email client supporting both GPG encryption/signing and Python plugins..

But there is virtually no documentation on writing those plugins :'( So I just tried it, open console from claws-mail menu and tried it as described in demo.

But I got

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

NameError: name 'clawsmail' is not defined

When I tried accessing clawsmail modul. After a while, I found that all you need to do is first import clawsmail modul.

import clawsmail

Simple ^_^

I will probably make some kind of tutorial for this (python plugins in claws mail) so no one else have to do the "digging".

lookbehind regex in PHP

Today, I was facing a problem how to split something like following text

a="Some Text" b="Some more Text" c="Even more text about \" this text\"" d="aaaaaaa"

into array, into pairs key => value. I couldn't just use explode(), because spaces could be inside the quotes..

After a little searching, I founded that solution lies in lookbehind regular expressions.. Nifty things ^_^

This

/(?<![\\\|=])\" /

expressions would split it into following array:

array (

  0 => 'a="Some Text',

  1 => 'b="Some more Text',

  2 => 'c="Even more text about \" this text\"',

  3 => 'd="aaaaaaa"',

)

so exactly what we wanted :)

YaCy on Archlinux

Today I decided to deploy YaCy on my VPS running Archlinux. I installed package and all went well until I noticed, that no images are being displayed. After some searching (30 minutes?) I finally figured it out.

To correctly show (generated) images, YaCy requires X Server and libcups, even on server running only in console.

I already requested adding those two packages into dependecies, but until it's done, if you having problem running YaCy without X server, just run "pacman -S xorg-server libcups" and it should be ok.

PHPUnit_Util_Log_XML

I was doing some work in PHPUnit and one of the request from company was export to xml.. So I was thinking, how to do that? I found some tutorials online, but I run into error Class 'PHPUnit_Util_Log_XML' not found in...

I found out that PHPUnit_Util_Log_XML was renamed into PHPUnit_Util_Log_JUnit ...

I just thought I can save someone searching..

CodeIgniter form helper

Today, I was developing some form generating script for one guy and I need a quick way for creating form. For this purpose I used to use Form class from Nette framework, but I requires a bunch of files etc., so it was a little overkill for my script consisting of exactly one file.

So I remembered, that CodeIgniter has form helper, which was exactly what I needed. But there was problem, this helper was dependent on the framework itself, it was not just "set of standalone functions".

So I stripped it down, removing call for framework and leaving helper file, which can be used as standalone script.

If I remember correctly now, there is only one different to original helper. My helper is set only for 'accept-charset="UTF-8"' but original gets this setting from framework. I was thinking about add possibility to set this, but because helper is a bunch of functions, there is not any static variable you can just set (I wanted to avoid name collisions...). And anyway, who is not using UTF-8 now, right?

But it is on github, so if someone has meaningful changes (like accept-charset, new functions, ...), do not hesitate to commit your code.

There is the link: https://github.com/volftomas/Standalone-form_helper

Statement

I do not really expect someone to read this.

So what is a purpose of this blog?

I need a easily searchable place to store non-private ideas, notes etc.