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Well, it's been quite some time since my last post - life in the new job has been pretty busy, I'd forgotten how hard it is starting a new job, so much to learn in so little time! The jump from IT sec...

Having used various version control systems over the years (cvs, clearcase, subversion), I have noticed a recent shift to decentralised version control systems (I've only used darcs, but there are a w...

I came across an interesting recent addition to the Python language (as of Python 2.4). They are called decorators. Decorators are Python objects that can register, annotate, and/or wrap a Python fun...

My current problem is quite simple, I have a directory full of files with no extensions. I would like to locate all word documents and run them through my header/footer extraction tool. Easy, I'll jus...

Had a bit of fun (?) at work writing a VB console application that simply opens up a word document and checks all headers and footers in the document for a specified list of keywords. The only real go...