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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=174&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=161&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=148&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=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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		<description><![CDATA[Unicode is evil, that is all.
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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&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=128&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=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 on editing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=114&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=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 conf file as by default it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=101&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Beazley&#8217;s Introduction to Python Class</title>
		<link>http://meantheory.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/david-beazleys-introduction-to-python-class/</link>
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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 a great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=92&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My first time with Ruby and Gem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had no real opinion on ruby.  Heard it was like python, just different.  I like python.  I wanted to take a look at sproutcore, new javascript library that all the cool kids are talking about.  sproutcore uses ruby for a variety of reasons. Whatever, no big.  I work on a mac so Leopard has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=77&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PostgreSQL with some Jeos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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PostgreSQL &#8211; Open source database (their website here).
Jeos &#8211; Stripped down Ubuntu for Virtual Machines (tutorial here).
I need a custom build of postgres because I have to get it to work with Windows Active Directory which from the literature (blogs) I have read works.  I am somewhat skeptical but PostgreSQL will be a hard sale [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meantheory.wordpress.com&blog=451607&post=59&subd=meantheory&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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