DTrace for Linux
I wanted to draw attention to the excellent work that Paul Fox has been doing in porting DTrace to Linux. And he recently created a GitHub repo for it, so it's that much easier to contribute now. If you have Linux kernel...
Category: Programming
TarColor: color the output of tar tvf similarly to the way GNU ls would
One day I was looking through a tar file and looking for an executable. When I use ls, I can do this at a glance by just looking for green filenames, as I always have my ls configured to show executable files in green. It...
Pull request for Python pip installer accepted
https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/374 The pull request addresses a UnicodeDecodeError bug in pip. It affects pip in Python 3 and it's triggered when a package install fails and emits Unicode characters to the console. A classic...
Don’t be alarmed by super large VSIZE on OS X
(Also at https://github.com/urbancoding/jenx/issues/32) Don't freak out too much if 64-bit processes on OS X have a VSIZE of 10 GB or more. marca@SCML-MarcA:~$ cat macruby_test.rb print "What's your name? " name = gets.chop puts...
Pull request accepted for ScriptTest
My pull request (to fix a Unicode bug that I discovered while working on a bug in pip) was accepted for inclusion in Ian Bicking's ScriptTest package....
Patch accepted into Twisted
I had some code accepted into Twisted to solve a bug related to Unicode. The bug is actually 2 years old and I first got involved 23 months ago (in December of 2009), so it's good to see the loop finally closed....
phpserialize on Python 3
I was playing around with phpserialize and found out that phpserialize doesn't work on Python 3. However, I put together a GitHub fork that works with Python 3 (and also has tests, especially for Unicode which is the real gotcha...