Rusty Razor Blade
I tend to open up several terminals when working on a project, so I usually want them to start in the same directory I’ve been working with. Stick this in your ~/.bash_profile to have your new terminal windows automatically cd to the directory you last used.
export PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo `pwd` > ~/.lastpwd’
cd `cat ~/.lastpwd [...]
I ran into an issue installing the MySQLdb module.
>>> import MySQLdb
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg/_mysql.py:3: UserWarning: Module _mysql was already imported from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg/_mysql.pyc, but /Users/jhaddad/Downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.3 is being added to sys.path
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ““, line 1, in
File “MySQLdb/__init__.py”, line 19, in
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In this tutorial I’ll be guiding you through setting up a headless Ubuntu 11.10 box that you’ll manage using virt-manager, accessed via X11. My main machine is a Mac running OSX Lion. You’ll need the Ubuntu CD, and for the first part of the tutorial, physical access to the box with a keyboard and monitor. [...]
It’s appropriately named Facebook News Ticker Remover. Now I just need to clear out the entire right column. And most of the newsfeed.
Edit: Just found minimalist-facebook which hides even more features I can’t stand.
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About 4 years ago I decided to write a little GUI tool for manually testing API calls. Put it on the top of my blog, people have downloaded it, and I haven’t touched it since then. Last updated timestamp was 2007.
I don’t know if anyone wants it, but it could be useful as [...]
Running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, we were seeing an error in trac (File js/jquery.js not found) about jQuery being missing.
After plowing through about 20 forums, I finally found a post which gave a tip similar to this:
ln -s /usr/share/pyshared/trac/htdocs/js/jquery.js /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/trac/htdocs/js/jquery.js
After doing that, jQuery showed up.
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I’m finding this useful as I work with snipmate and have defined custom snippets for solr config files. I still want to use the XML filetype, but I have no real use for the solr fields outside of editing the schema.xml file.
set filetype=xml.solr
Booya.
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Here’s a pretty common git error message if you’ve added a remote origin server manually.
You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
want to merge with, and ‘branch.master.merge’ in
your configuration file does not tell me, either. Please
specify which branch you want to use on the [...]
easy_install on the mac has some weird hardcoding issue where it uses a specific version of setuptools. You can read a really good explanation by Andreas Jacobsen here.
The fix is to use python to call easy_install instead of using the Apple provided one.
sudo python -m easy_install pymongo
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I tried Python out a while ago, but stopped trying it to learn it after some major frustrations. Maybe I didn’t dig deep enough into it. I found the documentation hard to read, and the module layout seemed a little random at times. For some reason I found executing an external process and getting [...]
