Technical Insights

'Awesome Project: Sparkup'

Sparkup is a TextMate and Vim plugin for expanding short CSS style tags into HTML, written by my man Rico Sta Cruz.

From the github page:

You can write HTML in a CSS-like syntax, and have Sparkup …

Using Kickstart to Automate CentOS VM Creation

I’ve done this using CentOS, but I’m pretty sure the same thing will work with RedHat the exact same way.

Virtualization is now a commodity with several free tools available from Sun, …

VirtualBox - SSH'ing into a VM from an outside machine

Note: The terminology used below also applies to VMWare. The screens are different, but the issue and the solution are the same.

When creating a new VM through VirtualBox, you might have a problem …

PyTables user's guide

I finally found the manual for PyTables. In case anyone else is as blind as I am, I’m linking to it here.

Installing NumPy on MacOS X Snow Leopard

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 …

Issues Compiling HDf5 1.8.3 on MacOS X Snow Leopard

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 …

Bad Web Developers Don't Scale

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 …

'Quite Note: Jump to Matching Brace in Eclipse'

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 …

Helpful guide for setting up SSHFS on mac

I finally got fed up enough to look into this. I’ve previously used Samba mounts, but this in theory should be better. …