Tech

Reload Non-Python Files with Paster — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Aug 17, 2008 10:13 PM

a quickie to get templates reloaded when edited and running under paster --reload

Create Plone 3 Archetype Product with ZopeSkel and Buildout — by Chris Shenton — last modified Sep 05, 2009 01:15 PM

ZopeSkel can create Archetype-based products for Plone 3. Wire it up in Buildout.

Becoming manager in ZODB — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Aug 17, 2008 11:04 PM

Get manager privileges in an interactive ZODB session

Using Aqamacs to Edit Plone Content — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Sep 08, 2008 02:07 PM

A quick description to setting up a Mac to use Aquamacs to edit Plone documents. Good for Content-type: text/x-rst

Stop spam with spamd and pf — by Chris Shenton — last modified Sep 23, 2008 03:36 PM

Turned out to be remarkably easy and effective. Wish I'd done it sooner.

Testing pre-commit hook permissions — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Jul 20, 2009 02:24 AM

A quick way to test pre-commit hooks w ihtout making test checkins.

Plone UnifiedInstaller vs. Old zc.buildout eggs — by Chris Shenton — last modified Oct 01, 2008 12:47 AM

Repeated use of evolving versions of the UnifiedInstaller have different zc.buildout egg version requirements.

Install Plone with ZopeSkel, Buildout; needs PIL — by Chris Shenton — last modified Oct 02, 2008 03:53 PM

Martin Aspeli's instructions work fine, but I had to add PIL to the buildout.cfg.

Create a Code Swarm Animation — by Chris Shenton — last modified Oct 29, 2008 03:20 PM

Code Swarm could use a bit o' luvin' in the docs but this was pretty easy on OS X.

readline-5.2 won't compile on OS X 10.5 Leopard — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Nov 01, 2008 05:51 PM

Readline hasn't been updated as of this writing to include OS X 10.5 Leopard (Darwin 9) in its shared object configuration. This is a patched version so it builds on Leopard.

libsvm wrapped for egg — by Chris Shenton — last modified Nov 11, 2008 08:10 PM

Stop the madness.

FreeBSD virtualization with ezjail — by Chris Shenton — last modified Nov 24, 2008 12:51 PM

Creating isolated instances in jails, on ZFS filesystem

Set Up a Postfix Submission Service on FreeBSD — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Nov 16, 2008 09:49 PM

Instructions to set up a Postfix submission service on FreeBSD

Subscribe to Google Groups with Non-Google Address — by Chris Shenton — last modified Oct 19, 2009 02:45 PM

Inconsistent behavior is confusing, but it's easy.

Install FreeRADIUS on OS X — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 12, 2009 05:34 PM

Tweak a couple switches to avoid link failure against Perl

Building Python with --enable-shared in non-standard location — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 04, 2009 02:01 PM

We want to use mod_wsgi but getting python to link at runtime isn't obvious.

VPN to Cisco on OS X with 'vpnc' — by Chris Shenton — last modified May 08, 2009 02:30 PM

vpnc builds fine and can auth, but then complains about ESP error, unless you use the right switch.

Django forms with ManyToManyFields — by Chris Shenton — last modified May 12, 2009 06:48 PM

Saving the form data with the many-to-many relations is subtle if you're not using save() in the normal way: your relations aren't committed to the DB.

Sieve server-side mail filtering with Postfix, Dovecot — by Chris Shenton — last modified May 16, 2009 07:14 PM

Turned out to be easier than I expected, but took a bit of poking around.

Buildout for Django with PostgreSQL on OS X — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 08, 2010 05:07 PM

Need to install PostgreSQL from source so buildout of psycopg2 can find libraries, includes and commands.

Compile Subversion on OS X with Neon, SSL — by Chris Shenton — last modified Aug 12, 2009 10:10 AM

Problems abound: system's old neon, makefile ignoring location of new neon, ssl, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

Create Plone Initial Content with Generic Setup — by Chris Shenton — last modified Aug 18, 2009 01:12 AM

It seems like it's almost easy but there's too many missing pieces of info. Perhaps this will contribute to the discussion. This is on Plone-3.3rc4.

Set PATH on OS X — by Chris Shenton — last modified Aug 23, 2009 03:04 PM

standard .bash_profile and .login didn't work for me

Git SVN notes — by Chris Shenton — last modified Sep 28, 2009 10:16 AM

Newbie notes on using Git with a remote SVN repo.

Use DJBDNS to slave a zone from a master — by Chris Shenton — last modified Sep 24, 2009 04:45 PM

It's not like BIND but it's not hard either. Master-IP-based directories hold domain-name files that tell the "puller" where and what to get.

Sync Apple iCal with Google Calendar — by Chris Shenton — last modified Dec 06, 2009 10:11 AM

Snow Leopard makes syncing Google calendars easy but you'll need to push existing iCal calendars.

System Monitoring with Zenoss — by Chris Shenton — last modified Dec 29, 2009 04:38 PM

Zenoss is a sophisticated open source / commercial network monitoring system.

Time Tracking, Invoicing, Accounting Software — by Chris Shenton — last modified Jan 05, 2010 01:35 AM

Desktop, Online, iPhone, Software as Service. So many to choose from. Not all of them good.

Setup FreeTDS, ODBC and pyodbc to Connect to MS-SQL on FreeBSD — by Reed O'Brien — last modified Jan 18, 2010 02:57 PM

Instructions for connecting FreeBSD 8.0 to MSSQL server (2005) for use with pyodbc and SQLAlchemy. it should also work fine on OSX 10.6.

hudson — by Chris Shenton — last modified Jan 20, 2010 11:46 AM

Presentation on Hudson to HQ

Apache with RADIUS authentication for Trac (with RSA server) — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 05, 2010 04:13 PM

We wanted to have a Trac instance authenticate to our corporate RSA server which exposes a RADIUS protocol; the mod_auth_radius module did the trick.

Postgres, psycopg2, virtualenv install hints — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 08, 2010 05:20 PM

Had problems with Darwin ports, homebrew install, etc etc. Put Postgres's binary directory in your PATH before trying to install psycopg2.

Postgres startup on OS X 10.6 — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 09, 2010 03:42 PM

Use launchd and launchctl to start our hand-built Postgres server on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Compiling Python 3 on OS X Snow Leopard — by Chris Shenton — last modified Feb 17, 2010 01:39 PM

Default configure and build dumped curious errors, a simple environment setting fixed it.