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Creating self-contained python applications

I'm trying to create a self-contained version of pisa (html to pdf converter, latest version), but I can't succeed due to several errors. I've tried py2exe, bb-freeze and cxfreeze. This has to be in windows, which makes my life a bit harder. I remember that a couple of months ago the author had a zip file containing the install, but now...

Resize image and add an overlay image without using tables and without losing style in xml

I am building a system to create a "fake video embed" with thumbnails and play buttons over them. The images are coming from a service at a standard size, so have no choice but to resize them in HTML. Another restriction is, the codeblock has to be self-contained (like an embed code) and not reliant on any external stylesheets. I'm overl...

Creating a self-contained source release with Maven

Up until now we used Ant in my company. Whenever we wanted to send the application to the client we run a special Ant script that packaged all our source code with all jar libraries and Ant itself along with a simple batch file. Then the client could put the files on a computer with no network access at all (and not even Ant) and run th...

Jquery html() and self closing tags

While creating self contained elements with Jquery html() the following issue happens: $('#someId').html('<li><input type="checkbox" /></li>') will create <li><input type="checkbox"></li> It closes correctly the <li> tag but not the <input> It seems its an issue from innerHtml which is used in the html() function. I have looked ...

Django equivalent to "rake rails:freeze:gems" and "rake gems:unpack"

Is there and equivalent in Django to Rails' freezing and unpacking mechanism to a vendor directory so that an application becomes self-contained? ...