When building a slightly more complex application using PySimpleGUI, you may run into the need to store user preferences to a file. This allow persisting some information or custom settings for the next time the user runs the application.

While not terribly difficult, when first learning to build applications, this …

I was wondering if some advanced menu features were available in PySimpleGui. Mainly, could you have check boxes next to items on the menu to show the state of that item? The screen shot below show menu checks in action in Visual Studio Code.

PySimpleGui has the ability to create …

Spoiler Alert - I will tell you the answer upfront. I wear a mask for you, my fellow sojourners through a strange new world. By wearing the mask, there is a slim possibility that I may protect someone from contracting this heinous virus.

The mask makes me look stupid. The mask …

The inspiration for this article comes from an email I received from Luke Harrison. He had created an SQL Cheat Sheet that he was rightfully proud of and was wanting to share and promote it.

It just so happens that I love cheat sheets. I find them useful for giving …

Beginner Level

When learning python, the first thing to do is... well... learn python. There is a lot to learn. A basic understanding of the language covers things like:

• Basic expressions (variables, statements)
• What is a function
• Flow control (if, iterations)
• Basic data types (strings, integers, floats)
• Data building blocks …

One of my latest goals is to publish applications that I write. It's called "Pelican Article Generator". It spits out a template for these blog posts. Publishing an applicatin to the world is potentially embarrassing because I'm showing my horrible code to the world. Oh well.

Here are the goals …

A lot of my python work involves writing simple utilities. This means either writing the tool as a command line application or using a minimal GUI.

I have been working on a simple python application recently to automate creating article stubs for this blog. I had a working version using …

For the first time, I ran into a quote where the phrase "around the turn of the century" was refering to the year 2000 instead of 1900. Up until now, I have always associated that phrase with the change from the 1800's to the 1900's.

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I had never heard of "CourseDuck" until they contacted me recently through email about mentioning my feeble site in their newsletter. So, I checked them out CourseDuck.com.

Course Duck allows you to search and find training courses across a wide range of training sites.

I like it, and I'm …

I am a life-long learner. This means I always have some kind of learning project in the works. And I find learning python and other technologies through online video tutorials to be one of the best ways for me to learn new topics. Here are some of things things I …