Archive for September, 2009

Installing NumPy on MacOS X Snow Leopard

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

NumPy is a requirement to work with PyTables. This is the second step in the install process, after getting HDF5 set up. These instructions are based on the ones found on the NumPy site, but I'm summarizing things for my own use later on. First, you'll need to install the Fortran ...

Issues Compiling HDf5 1.8.3 on MacOS X Snow Leopard

Monday, September 21st, 2009

I'm trying to evaluate pytables as a replacement for very large Python dictionaries, but having some issues getting HDF5 installed on my Mac (OS X Snow Leopard). I've been getting this error: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables I haven't been able to figure out what's wrong yet - anyone ...

Bad Web Developers Don’t Scale

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Over the last 5 years, I've read so many articles about how X doesn't scale. PHP, MySQL, SQL Server, Apache, you name it - everything gets a bad rap. Everyone has a different idea of scale and size, and sadly most people think their site with 1 million ...

Quite Note: Jump to Matching Brace in Eclipse

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

This is more of a note to myself, but I had a hard time figuring out how to jump to a matching brace in eclipse. on a mac: apple+shift+p on a pc, under linux: ctrl+shift+p I like how BBEdit handles this. If I double click on a brace, it selects ...

Helpful guide for setting up SSHFS on mac

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I finally got fed up enough to look into this. I've previously used Samba mounts, but this in theory should be better. http://www.turingtarpit.com/2009/04/mounting-remote-filesystems-on-osx-leopard-using-sshfs-macfuse-and-macfusion/ If you're using Snow Leopard, the drive will not be able to mount. You can get around this by deleting /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so