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Category: Tech Tips
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Upgrading to OSX Mavericks
I’m a late adopter, but I finally took the plunge and upgraded to OSX Mavericks tonight. A few gotchas:-
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Search and replace on a large file on OSX using Sed
My code editor of choice, Sublime text 2, crashes when you try to do a search and replace on a large file. This makes it difficult…
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Managing Google App Engine SDK versions on OSX with virtualenv
When I first started developing Django apps on Google App Engine (GAE), I downloaded the google app engine launcher. Installing this will install the latest version…
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Pushing a local git repo to a bare remote
Often I create a git repo locally, but then want to push it to a remotely hosted repo. On the server, create a folder and move…
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Notes on deplying django with virtualenv mod_wsgi and apache on ubuntu
As i’ve exclusively been using app engine in my day job at Potato, I haven’t yet had to deal with deploying a django site on my…
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Setting up apache on osx lion
For general website/ PHP development, I like to have multiple local sites running from my Sites folder using virtualhosts. Up until now i’ve usually done this…
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mysql_config not found osx
This always gets me when I try to install mysql-python on osx using pip:- Googling round finds that most people suggest editing a line in MySQL-python/site.cfg…
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Lost network interfaces in virtual machine
I was having a confusing issue where after moving an ubuntu virtualbox virtual machine I was losing the virtual network adapters (i’m running one on NAT…
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Get a list of attributes for a django object
For a queryset: For a single object instance:- Also for a single object instance – returns fields and values as a dict Iterate through the dict…
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windows xp display upside down
If you are reading this upside down then chances are you are looking for information on how to get your display to appear the right way…
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installed amphetadesk
for those of you who don’t know, amphetadesk is a program which allows you to subscribe to the Rich Site Summary (RSS) “feed” or “channel” of…
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VNC authentication failed
Are you sure you haven’t just got the caps lock key on? I mean of course i’d never make a stupid mistake like that, but….