Month: April 2011

Fun with zc.buildout

I've been exploring zc.buildout (another link) lately. In the past, I've typically gone the simpler route of using virtualenv and pip, but I knew that buildout could do some powerful things and I've long wanted to kick the tires....

Mac

Skype AppleScripts

These are some AppleScripts that I developed to make it easier to dial into a daily conference call. For this conference call, I dial into an 888 number and then I dial an 8 digit conference code and hit the '#' key to enter a...

General

gisty

A while back, I blogged about a little Python program I wrote that uploads snippets to gist from the command-line. Well, Martin Cozzi took the original gist and made a full-fledged GitHub project out of it, called gisty. So now...

DreamHostLinux

Running Dropbox on DreamHost

As promised and after a nudge from Bruce, here's how I was able to get the Dropbox Linux CLI software running on a DreamHost VPS server. This isn't super hard but it wasn't a trivial install, because the Dropbox software is...

General

Pyramid: Another Python web framework? Sort of…

I stumbled upon Pyramid (from the Pylons Project) tonight and wondered why the world needed another Python web framework. However, upon closer inspection, I noticed that Pyramid is essentially a rebranding of repoze.bfg. So it's...

LinuxMac

Making du report useful output for comparing across systems

You have to be a little careful using the du command to compare output across systems. For example, a few weeks ago I backed up a bunch of files from our MacBook Pro to our NAS and then was running du commands to verify that...

General

Message queue – which one?

I'm just curious what message queues people like. Here are three popular ones (feel free to mention others) that are a snap to install on OS X: $ brew search mq activemq rabbitmq zeromq