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Installing MySQLdb on MacOS Lion

By On November 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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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Api Tester now hosted on Github

By On October 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Headless Virtual Box

By On July 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I like running VirtualBox headless on my Mac. It doesn’t show up in the Dock, and feels like it’s a remote server.

First, figure out which VMs you have on your machine.

haddad-work:~ jhaddad$ VBoxManage list vms Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.6 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. “WebServer” {2c61a180-e098-4926-b09a-27e431791c88} [...]

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Mount afp share over command line

By On April 29, 2010 · 2 Comments

This is so useful to me that I have to repost it here, just in case it disappears.

# create a folder for the mount point sudo mkdir /Volumes/music # mount the disk mount -t afp afp:/// /Volumes/music/ #refresh the finder for when you get back disktool -r # when you’re done sudo umount /Volumes/music [...]

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Running Puppet Master on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

By On February 2, 2010 · 2 Comments

As of a few hours after this post, I’ve given up trying to get Puppet Master running on Snow Leopard. There appears to be an issue with the SSL certificates generated that’s preventing puppetd from getting it’s recipes. There doesn’t appear to be any way to disable this. I have switched to a CentOS VM, [...]

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Installing NumPy on MacOS X Snow Leopard

By On September 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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 compiler [...]

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Helpful guide for setting up SSHFS on mac

By On September 9, 2009 · 3 Comments

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

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New Mac Dev Box Software Checklist

By On May 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

When I get a new Mac, I go through the same steps every time. Yes I use a Mac as a dev box.

Software

Xcode
Adium
Launchbar
iTerm – change defaults to black background. (edit bookmarks, default, background)
Apache HTTP Server (source)
MySQL [...]

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On cocoa…

By On December 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I found this pretty amusing…

me:
i’m terrible w/ cocoa
i don’t particularly like objective-c
it’s to verbose

matt:
[me putonSock:blueOne onFoot:rightFoot ignoringHangNail:YES]

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OS X: Spaces + Fluid = Awesome

By On November 29, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve tried so many times to use Spaces, and I keep failing. As useful as it *should* be, it just never was. And I’ve finally realized why. Most of what I do is in a web browser. And spaces just wasn’t made for that. I want Gmail to always be in space 3. Facebook on [...]

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