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Flexibility
IT projects, like tattoos, are commitments. You wouldn’t accept that kind of answer from a tattoo artist, it’s your body, you have the right to change your mind as long as the ink is not under your skin. Why would that be different for software development ? Why would requirements be written into stone once […]
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The right tool for the job
There are some tools that really make your life easier when working. Some people might say that the only tool you’ll ever need is Emacs, but when working on Windows, there are some small utilities that can increase your productivity. Here is my personal choice. Launchy Launchy is a keystroke launcher. It can index your […]
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openpyxl: my python xlsx library
Update: openpyxl 1.0 is now out ! At a customer, we read a lot of Excel files. We’ve tried the conventional approaches, that are xlrd and xlwt, pyinex, and COM automation. That’s COM that we mainly use, because it’s able to deal with every Excel file format, from the ancient Excel 5 to most recent […]