Peter Carroll: Software Developer

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  • Update: Barra de Español version 1.1 released!

    Just a quick update to announce that Barra de Español version 1.1 has been released. For more details, see my post on babelhut.com about the release.

  • Barra de Español: The making of a Firefox extension

    I have just released a new Firefox add-on called Barra de Español, a toolbar for those who are studying the Spanish language. It makes it easier to find definitions for words in Spanish or English, it helps you insert special characters that are specific to Spanish into any textbox in Firefox, and it provides links […]

  • BibleFeed Project: Consuming a SOAP web service

    This is the third post in the BibleFeed Project. If you haven’t already, read the first and second posts. In my last post I stated the difficulty I was having finding a python library to handle the SOAP web service which I’ll be using to get the data for this project. I gave up on […]

  • The difficulty of consuming a .NET Web Service using Python

    This post is not part of my Biblefeed series of posts, but it is very much related. For the Biblefeed project, I was hoping to consume this web service in order to get the data I need to make the project work. The web service appears to be a SOAP web service written in .Net. […]

  • BibleFeed Project: Creating the models

    This is the second post relating to the BibleFeed Project. If you haven’t yet, you may want to read the first post. As with most applications, this one needs to store data. To store data in a django project, I need to first create models representing the data. While I’m sure that the following will […]