Volvo Door Mirror Mismatched Folding

Sept. 14, 2017 |  s80  mirror  volvo 
One of the problems that I encountered with the S80 is that when I unlocked the car and pressed the button to unfold the door mirrors, they would be out of sync with each other. That is one would open and at the same time the other would close. You can ope

How to Integrate Sphinx with a Django Project for Automatic Documentation Generation

Sept. 14, 2017 |  django  sphinx  documentation 
A few points on integrating Sphinx with a Django redistributable project for generating documentation embedded in the source files.

Volvo Service Reminder Message

March 12, 2017 |  s80  volvo  diy 
This is a message that appears on my Volvo S80 after driving for a period of time. Interestingly, this message appears even though I have not driven the car for the recommended service interval - 7500 miles, or about 12000km. Did some research and it turns

Volvo Engine Service Required Message

March 12, 2017 |  s80  volvo  diy 
This is a message that my Volvo (S80 2004 2.0T) started showing yesterday. The message was accompanied with a yellow/orange warning light, (image on the right) in the car dash. This freaked me out when it first appeared as I was worried that the car could

Django template tag to retrieve template filename

Feb. 9, 2017 |  django  filename  template 
One useful Django template tag is to retrieve the template filename from inside the template. Unfortunately, Django built in tags do not provide one for this. However, you can write a simple tag to accomplish this. Here's are two tags, that return either t