import re



rxcountpages = re.compile(r"$\s*/Type\s*/Page[/\s]", re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL)



def countPages(filename):

    data = file(filename,"rb").read()

    return len(rxcountpages.findall(data))



if __name__=="__main__":

    print "Number of pages in PDF File:", countPages("test.pdf")

Well – pydev is currently living a dangerous life – spent my whole afternoon hunting down some well hidden problems – might be I’ll switch to vim for python development really soon … well normally pydev is great – eclipse just isn’t.

This leaves me with the question: Should I?

At first it’s a really nice thing to be able to host less “stuff” – hosting less is (almost) always a good thing. But do I really want to delegate this stuff to Google? Of course it would be great to have a central instance for JS-libraries – as Google says you gain: correctly set cache headers, up to date bug fixes.

As often there are two sides – if using such a service, it should be highly reliable and available for ever – which makes Google a good candidate. On the other side, do I really want to make the functioning of my websites dependend on a third party – do I want them to know about my visitors?

Google is everywhere – besides GoogleAnalytics this is a second way for them to know about movement in the web.

If I find the time, I’ll take a closer look at this whole complex.

http://flexformatter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FlexFormatter/FlexPrettyPrintCommandUpdateSite/

The concept of CouchDB seemed strange to me at first sight (and part of me still thinks it is). Having an Erlang implemented document oriented database which uses a map-reduce concept to get the data. There are plenty of ways to use CouchDB (which offers an http-, rest-oriented interface), libraries for almost every civilized programming language exist – but in my eyes the most beautiful thing about CouchDB is the possibility to write self-contained applications in JavaScript. Paired with CouchDBs brilliant replication features some very interesting ideas come to my mind – you will read about my learnings from Couchland here (btw I don’t like Borat).

And now I’m going to enjoy my brilliant breakfast.

Nice small event – giving kudos to the organizers. Definitive recommendation.