Category: Programming

Continuation of mod_wsgi setup

My previous setup worked until I wanted to add another Django instance and then it didn't work, because I had two WSGIScriptAlias entries under different URLs but it would launch whichever app it wanted to regardless of the URL....

ProgrammingPython

djangotestxmlrpc

I had been working on DjangoPyPI and trying to fix some tests related to XML-RPC that were failing in versions of Python < 2.7, because the testing was relying on specifics of the implementation of xmlrpclib in Python 2.7. I...

ProgrammingPython

Some tips for setting up Apache and mod_wsgi

I recently set up an internal PyPI server at work for hosting some of our internal Python packages. I used djangopypi and that was pretty easy to set up and get it working in the Django runserver. Most of the difficulty came in...

GtDProductivityProgrammingProject ManagementRants

Have a conversation once or have it over and over forever

When a team is collaborating to create software, there are inevitably issues that come up in “big picture” areas like architecture and process. There are two ways to deal with these: Take some time out from the daily...

LinuxProgrammingUbuntu

Making it easy to try DTrace4Linux

DTrace4Linux is an attempt (from UK developer Paul Fox, also known for his CRiSP editor) to bring the power of DTrace to Linux. It's a kernel module (No kernel recompilation required! Yay!) and userland tools. I did a bit of...

GtDMacProductivityPython

PyOmniFocus

A while back, I mentioned here and here that OmniFocus maintains some kind of cache of your data in a SQLite database. I just hacked together a quick little prototype Python module for reading OmniFocus data:...

ProgrammingPython

Wondering which Python your Apache with modwsgi is using?

This let me figure out that my modwsgi wasn't using the Python that I thought it was. sudo lsof -c httpd | grep python