You are here: Home Tech

Tech

by Reed O'Brien last modified Oct 05, 2008 09:28 AM

hints, tips, tricks and memory aids for the slipping mind

Page 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
Page 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.
Page Becoming manager in ZODB by Reed O'Brien — last modified Aug 17, 2008 11:04 PM
Get manager privileges in an interactive ZODB session
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
News Item libsvm wrapped for egg by Chris Shenton — last modified Nov 11, 2008 08:10 PM
Stop the madness.
News Item FreeBSD virtualization with ezjail by Chris Shenton — last modified Nov 24, 2008 12:51 PM
Creating isolated instances in jails, on ZFS filesystem
News Item 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
News Item 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.
News Item 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
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
News Item 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
News Item Git SVN notes by Chris Shenton — last modified Sep 28, 2009 10:16 AM
Newbie notes on using Git with a remote SVN repo.
News Item 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.
News Item 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.
Folder 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.
Folder 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.
Page 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.
Folder hudson by Chris Shenton — last modified Jan 20, 2010 11:46 AM
Presentation on Hudson to HQ
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Document Actions