Debugging stories: What’s that 404 error?
Here is a little story about resolving an issue with a web site that turned out not to be an issue with a web site :-)
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Fix error 853 when encrypting FileMaker databases
Have you ever gotten the following error after trying to encrypt your FileMaker databases?
Running a script in the Windows Local System account
Today I needed to debug a scheduled script and test its behavior when run in the Windows Local System account instead of my regular domain user’s (this was o...
python-fmrest compatibility with the new FileMaker 17 Data API
A few hours ago FileMaker 17 was released, and with it an updated Data API, which is now finally out of trial phase.
Using launchd agents to schedule scripts on macOS
Even though launchd has been around for quite some time now, I was still using crontab for scheduling some of my scripts until recently. Since launchd Launch...
Load password protected Excel files into Pandas DataFrame
When trying to read an Excel file into a Pandas DataFrame gives you the following error, the issue might be that you are dealing with a password protected Ex...
Bokeh plots with Flask and AJAX
Tutorial on creating Bokeh plots with an AJAX data source, served from an existing Flask app.
The basics of Logarithms – with examples
Logarithms are widely used in computer science (e.g. for algorithm analyses, floating point number limitations, scaling data, feature transformations). Not c...
Using vi commands in your bash shell
Entering a long shell command and then moving the cursor around to correct parts of it always felt a bit clunky to me. I remembered some of the <ctrl>/...
Count elementwise matches for two NumPy arrays
Let’s say we have two integer NumPy arrays and want to count the number of elementwise matches.