Category: 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...

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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 \ >...

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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...

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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...

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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

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Our first EarthBox

Kale in an EarthBox, The one on the left is a "strap leaf". The two on the right are Russian Red....

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I think I love supervisor

Supervisor is simple. It's easy to use. It lets me start, stop, and monitor all my little processes: $ supervisorctl status celeryd STOPPED Apr 15 03:17 PM dropboxd RUNNING pid 8442, uptime 1 day, 1:04:48 rabbitmq STOPPED Apr 15...