Python
cx_Freeze and PySide on Mac
I'd had success using py2app for building Mac binaries for distribution but wanted to give cx_Freeze a
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Writing about things.
Web Hosting
Pelicans on Webfaction
As mentioned in the previous post, I recently migrated this site over to the very clever Pelican. Setting it up
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Speed up MATLAB on MacOS X
On MacOS X 10.5 there is considerable slow-down in the MATLAB editor and other GUI elements. The issue
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Customize directory colors
You can use the command ls --color (or an alias) to show directories with colours for folders, files, links, etc.
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Control memcached from the command line
memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal but now used by
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Installing Haiku under Mac OS X with Virtualbox
Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating
Bash
Find all files containing a given string
A quick one-liner to recursively search files for a given text string.
Open up a terminal session and enter
Django
Django AJAX threaded-comments using jQuery
Upgrade threaded comments using mptt to allow AJAX submission of comments and update the template - without any backend hacking of
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Display external RSS feeds on your WordPress blog
Show another of your blogs or any other RSS news feed on your WordPress blog with this simple template code.
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Highlight author's comments on WordPress blog
In this short tutorial we'll take a look at a simple trick to make comments from the original
Linux
Kill unresponsive applications on Linux
Sometimes things go a bit wrong. Sometimes they go very wrong. XKill is a simple little application that allows you
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Change the Desktop directory on Linux
On desktop setups where icons are shown on the desktop these are normally taken from the specific folder ~/Desktop. If
Linux
Collaborate in the shell with screen (multiuser)
Screen is a neat little program that allows you to use multiple virtual terminals in a single session on Unix/
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Installing Google Earth on Ubuntu
Install the latest version of Google Earth for Ubuntu Linux direct from Google sources.
Open a terminal window to perform
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Syntax highlighting with Django and Markdown
Syntax highlighting is more than just eye candy. It can turn a block of impenetrable code into something more readable.
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Django Threaded Comments
Django ships with it's own comments contrib app that provides commenting on arbitrary models. However this is a
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Bash Command Substitution
Bash command substitution performs a given command replacing the marker with the resulting standard output. It is particularly useful when
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Remove duplicate lines from text files (with sort)
A quick method to remove duplicates from text files - including for example CSV files - where multiple records have been added