Author: Marc

How to have a buildout config that extends another buildout config

Buildout is a pretty useful tool, but the documentation is somewhat lacking. I needed to have specialized buildouts for dev and staging that extend a more general buildout. I couldn't find this in the buildout docs, but I found...

General

How to open a port to an EC2 instance

To open a port to an EC2 instance, do: ec2-authorize -p <port number> <security group> (from any machine with the ec2 command-line tools) If the server has iptables: sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport...

General

Ubuntu One: Getting an OAuth token

The first small modest step towards writing an Ubuntu One client, if I ever get the inclination to do so: $ curl --user $UBUNTU_ONE_USER:$UBUNTU_ONE_PASSWORD \ >...

ProgrammingPython

Python txLoadBalancer

The idea of a Python-based load balancer, txLoadBalancer, piqued my interest. It took a bit of futzing around to actually get it running, because the distribution doesn't specify its dependencies or include a sample config file....

GtDProductivity

OmniFocus AppleScript: Move project to folder

This is a pretty useful OmniFocus AppleScript that I developed by hacking on another script that I found on a blog. If you select a project and then execute the script, it will let you type in a string to search for a folder to...

DreamHost

Dropbox + glibc 2.4 buildout

I wrote a previous post on how I got Dropbox working on my DreamHost VPS. It was tricky because the DreamHost VPS had glibc 2.3 and the Dropbox binary needs glibc 2.4. Those instructions were somewhat complex and I've been...

Python

Python tool of the day: yolk

I just stumbled upon yolk. It does a bunch of things related to package management, but the simplest and arguably most useful is to just list installed packages. marcabramowitz@Marc-Abramowitzs-MacBook-Pro:~$ yolk -l Django - 1.3...