Codehouse: my digital life
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ChangeDetection Android App
Changedetection.io detects changes in the pages that you frequently visit. It is opensource and you can host in a server of your own. It has its own API in which I based these small prototype Android app.
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How to install the most recent Python in your Synology diskstation
How to obtain the most recent version of Python on your Synology NAS.
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You trust in AI blindly ? Think again…
I\’ve decided to write my own DHCP server, for a variety of reasons: every time the DHCP of my router have to be resetted, I have to fill again, bit by bit, the manual static entries of every network component. In other words, having a server of my own making, I can more easily move……
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Recuperando um MacBook Intel parado instalando o Ubuntu
Este artigo explica, passo a passo, todas as instruções necessárias para instalar e corrigir uma instalação do Ubuntu, da versão 16 para cima, num macbook com CPU baseado em Intel.
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Select the best GUI toolkit – part 6: wxWidgets
In this sixth part, we’ll be abording wxWidgets (which was called wxWindows in the past). Originally intended for programming in C++, it knows several wrappers, like WxPython, which we’ll be discussing here and several others, like wxNode, wxsqlite3, etc.
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Enable Paste in Android TV Box
If you’re the lucky owner of an Android TV Box, like me, provided by your ISP and discovered the only way to input long URLs is using the nifty GBoard virtual keyboard which have voice input in its features, and received also a wonderful remote controller just with the arrow keys, volume control, and keys……
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Select the best GUI toolkit – part 5: Java Swing
NOTE: this the fifth part of a series. The previous article was about .NET Windows Forms. You can find the article here. Java Swing is one of the oldest GUI toolkits made by SUN, the creator of the language (the first was AWT) and had vast acknowledgment at the time. Another frameworks followed, like SWT……
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Selecting the best GUI toolkit – part 4: Windows Forms
NOTE: this the fourth part of a series. The previous article was about AutoHotkey. You can find the article here. Windows Forms is a GUI programming framework developed by Microsoft for building Windows desktop applications. It provides a set of pre-built controls that developers can use to create user interfaces for their applications. It was……
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Selecting the best GUI programming toolkit – part 3: AutoHotkey
This is the third article of a series titled Selecting the best GUI programming toolkit . The latter article was about Tkinter embedded in PySimpleGUI. AutoHotkey is Scripting language to define shortcut keys for the most diverse applications under Windows, but its creators developers expanded the applications far beyond that – for the creation of……
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Como configurar um teclado PC português para uso num mac
Este post vai ser escrito em português, visto que a audiência vai ser precisamente os utilizadores portugueses. Num post da semana passada, escrito em inglês, dei conta das minhas dificuldades para configurar um teclado para PC para uso com um mac mini, correndo o Mac Os Ventura, e propus o uso do software HammerSpoon para……
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SQLite integration in WordPress IS BACK… !
Sqlite for Wordpress support is active again (there will be finally a ORM layer!?)
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Selecting the best GUI programming toolkit – part 2 (Tkinter in PySimpleGUI)
As the first toolkit to try, I selected Tkinter, since I’m versed in Python and this already comes packaged with the Python standard distribution. But, truthly speaking, I didn’t used the Tkinter API literally, but through a higher level interface provided by the PySimpleGUI library.
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Selecting the best GUI programming toolkit – First part (planning)
This post is a first one in a series in which I pretend to try six widget toolkits the select which is the most suited for your purposes. The way I intend to try each one is by developing a simple app launcher.