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Old django hack

Posted on November 3, 2011 by anibal

Scenario: django 0.91 postgresql 9.1 psycopg1 bug when importing psycopg Fix: Edit django/core/db/backends/postgresql.py and import psycopg twice . try: .     import psycopg as Database . except AttributeError: .     import psycopg as Database

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Keep only the latest version of a package in cache

Posted on November 20, 2010 by anibal

Hardcoded for ArchLinux, this python module prints out the files to remove if you want to keep only the latest version of a package in the cache directory: ./paclean.py|sudo xargs rm Source: http://code.google.com/p/fileversion-keeplast/

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ImportError: No module named interface

Posted on March 18, 2010 by anibal

OS=Ubuntu 9.10 Python version=2.6 After install a zope module using pip, for example z3c.password your zope installation gets broken. This is because pip have installed the module in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zope and the original module zope.interface is in /usr/share/pyshared/zope/interface/ and has minor … Continue reading →

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jQuery ui datepicker + jQuery editInPlace

Posted on September 17, 2009 by anibal

The goal of this post is to show how editInPlace plugin for jQuery can be used with the ui.jQuery.datepicker. Jacob Terry already made this very good but modifying Dave Hauenstein’s editInPlace plugin. Before show you the snippet here is the … Continue reading →

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Consumo de ADSL por mail – ANTELDATA

Posted on August 17, 2009 by anibal

cuentagigas.info es una interfaz simple para un bot(programa) que hace tiempo quería hacer para estar al tanto de cuántos gigas voy gastando en el adsl sin tener que estar entrando al sitio de anteldata, … si quieren probarlo: Detalles técnicos: … Continue reading →

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JSP Hello World Howto

Posted on August 6, 2009 by anibal

This can be called a howto of “How can I make a hello world in JSP without unnecessary tools like, Eclipse, struts, servlets, JBoss, etc.?” only you, your text editor, tomcat and of course, your GNU-Linux box. 1. Create a … Continue reading →

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Python: using a module written in C

Posted on June 9, 2009 by anibal

This is a brief tutorial for using a module written in C inside a Python program. It’s a summarized recipe fr those who want to run and test something fast without falling in reading the docs, but I recommend to … Continue reading →

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Playing with python-rpy2

Posted on February 26, 2009 by anibal

The goal was to prepare a little prototype to show the potential of R (r-cran) when used via its Python bridge python-rpy2, then show the results in a web application, for example, using django. In this example (in spanish) we … Continue reading →

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Python2.6 with mod_python in debian

Posted on January 15, 2009 by anibal

As you may know, there are no packages yet for Python2.6 in debian or ubuntu. If you want to install it you can do it by hand and it will work perfectly (it did for me) Google a bit and … Continue reading →

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ReSTlides.com: Online ReST based presentations

Posted on July 24, 2008 by anibal

When asked by a friend to present Python for the web for an university course, I though: “Why don’t present Python inside some Python-powered slides?” and for training purposes I’ve created http://restlides.com/ a django-powered site that allows us to create … Continue reading →

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