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		<title>Mail.app crashing on startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s Mail can be quite annoying but since it works with Exchange it saves me from working with Outlook. Something got that damn little color wheel of death spinning and it wouldn&#8217;t stop for several minutes so I force quit Mail. It was apparently doing something important because when I tried to start it up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=185&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I want my code back</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate SSIS. I have many valid technical reasons to think SSIS makes for a poor data processing tool but I will lay those aside. I am philosophically, morally, spiritually, and intellectually opposed to the very idea of SSIS. Programming is fun. There are interesting problems to solve and you often get to define the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=181&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Python + dtrace == insanely cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[dtrace is a sun developed (apple ported) technology for telling you what your computer is doing. I would try to explain it further but I would be doing it a great injustice. I first started learning about it here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chLw2aodYQ). Towards the end of the video Mr. Cantrill goes over using dtrace with python. One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=174&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sphinx Documentation System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sphinx is an excellent way of maintaining documentation, especially as it relates to programming, in particular python. I am a fan of the code highlighting and multiple output formats. I like using the html generation for day to day use but for the times I need more official looking documentation the pdf generation is excellent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=161&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>mssql + freetds + pyodbc + snow leopard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I develop on a mac but have to connect to mssql at some point or another. I had heard of freetds but I ended up taking the commercial way out with Actual Technologies mssql odbc driver for the mac because I wanted something that &#8216;just worked&#8217; and it seemed reasonably priced. I have made do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=148&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unicode is Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Python Concurrency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attended David Beazley&#8216;s python concurrency class over the weekend in Chicago. We were schooled on the horrific nature of the GIL, coroutines, generators, threads, processes, etc., etc. &#8211; a grand tour of nearly everything you can do to make multiple things happen at once. It was an excellent class and I would encourage anyone who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=128&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>pyodbc and ubuntu (jaunty)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Eden has a great post on accessing mssql from linux. I had to add one package (unixodbc-dev) to get things working so I ended up with the following: sudo aptitude install unixodbc unixodbc-dev freetds-dev tdsodbc python-dev Once this was done the usual &#8220;python setup.py install&#8221; no longer ended in tears. He also included instruction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=114&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>memcache on ubuntu (intrepid ibex)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Took me a few minutes to find all this so I thought I should take note. Installing memcache sudo apt-get install memcached This installs memcache in the usual ubuntu/debian way. It scatters several important files around the operating system in the process. start script: /usr/share/memcached/scripts/start-memcached init.d startup: /etc/init.d/memcached config file: /etc/memcached.conf Need to edit the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=101&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Beazley&#8217;s Introduction to Python Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attended a Python class this week.  Mr. Beazley put&#8217;s on a great introduction to python class and don&#8217;t let the &#8220;Introduction&#8221; fool you, it is a course with &#8220;meat&#8221;.  Highly recommended to anyone who already programs and is interested in learning python. His site: http://www.dabeaz.com/ The class is also offered at the Big Nerd Ranch (which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=451607&amp;post=92&amp;subd=meantheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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