SaltyCrane Blog

Notes on Python, Django, and web development on Ubuntu Linux

Posts for 2008

December

Card store project #5: Redirecting my www-prefixed domain to my non-www-prefixed domain (posted 2008-12-28)
Card store project #4: Notes on using Amazon's CloudFront (posted 2008-12-27, 5 Comments)
Postgres backup with cron (posted 2008-12-27)
Card store project #3: Installing Satchmo, part 2 (posted 2008-12-12, 2 Comments)
Card store project #2: Installing Satchmo, Django, PostgreSQL, and Apache on Ubuntu at Slicehost (posted 2008-12-11, 6 Comments)
Card store project #1: Plans (posted 2008-12-08, 10 Comments)

November

Creating remote server nicknames with .ssh/config (posted 2008-11-20)
Python datetime / time conversions (posted 2008-11-12, 4 Comments)

October

How to escape (percent-encode) a URL with Python (posted 2008-10-29, 2 Comments)
How to set the font for new frames in Emacs 23 (posted 2008-10-29, 1 Comment)
Running a Twisted Perspective Broker example with twistd (posted 2008-10-27)
Twisted links (posted 2008-10-21, 2 Comments)
Can't block for a Deferred in Twisted (posted 2008-10-20)
Running functions periodically using Twisted's LoopingCall (posted 2008-10-14, 5 Comments)
Installing beanstalkd and pybeanstalk on Ubuntu (posted 2008-10-10)
Installing Python 2.6 from source on Ubuntu Hardy (posted 2008-10-02, 12 Comments)
Installing Emacs 23 from ~~CVS~~Bazaar source on Ubuntu ~~Hardy~~Karmic (posted 2008-10-01, 6 Comments)

September

Notes on Python deployment using Fabric (posted 2008-09-28, 1 Comment)
Notes on using EC2 command line tools (posted 2008-09-27)
Python urlparse example (posted 2008-09-24)
How to get stdout and stderr using Python's subprocess module (posted 2008-09-23, 2 Comments)
How to monitor an Apache web server using Monit (posted 2008-09-22)
Simple cron example (posted 2008-09-15, 1 Comment)
Django Blog Project #16: Adding URL redirects using the Blogger API (posted 2008-09-12, 4 Comments)
Notes on parallel processing with Python and Twisted (posted 2008-09-12)
Notes on starting processes in Python (posted 2008-09-12)
Django Blog Project #15: New site logo (posted 2008-09-11, 4 Comments)
Simplistic Python Thread example (posted 2008-09-09, 6 Comments)
How to iterate over an instance object's data attributes in Python (posted 2008-09-07, 1 Comment)
Django Blog Project #14: Running Django 1.0 (posted 2008-09-05, 2 Comments)
Django Blog Project #13: Updating Django 1.0 Beta 2 New Comments and Adding Markdown support (posted 2008-09-02)

August

Notes on Django and MySql on Amazon's EC2 (posted 2008-08-30, 1 Comment)
How to conditionally replace items in a list (posted 2008-08-22, 9 Comments)
Django Blog Project #12: Adding Pygments syntax highlighting (posted 2008-08-20, 2 Comments)
Notes on users and groups on Linux (posted 2008-08-19)
Python recursion example to navigate tree data (posted 2008-08-19, 8 Comments)
On using Python, the Digg API, and simplejson (posted 2008-08-19)
http://www.saltycrane.com is my new OpenID (posted 2008-08-05)
Somewhere on your Python path (posted 2008-08-05)
Django Blog Project #11: Migrating from Django 0.96 to SVN Trunk (posted 2008-08-04)
Notes on moving Ubuntu Wubi to a standard ext3 partition using LVPM (posted 2008-08-04, 7 Comments)
How to use gnip-python to retrieve activity from Twitter, Delicious, Digg, etc. (posted 2008-08-01)
Django Blog Project #10: Adding support for multiple authors (posted 2008-08-01, 3 Comments)

July

How to set the default directory in Claws Mail (posted 2008-07-31)
How to set up Django with MySql on Ubuntu Hardy (posted 2008-07-30, 1 Comment)
Install wmii snapshot (posted 2008-07-29)
New PC setup notes (posted 2008-07-28)
Emacs ruby-mode (posted 2008-07-27)
How to search C code for division or sqrt (posted 2008-07-24)
Hello Saltycrane (posted 2008-07-23, 2 Comments)
Transition: Bye Blogger, Bo*ing (posted 2008-07-23)
Django Blog Project #9: Migrating Blogger posts with Beautiful Soup (posted 2008-07-14, 2 Comments)
On the quest for consistent keybindings (posted 2008-07-09)
Django Blog Project #8: Adding basic comment functionality with Django Free Comments (posted 2008-07-06, 4 Comments)

June

Django Blog Project #7: Adding a simple Atom feed (posted 2008-06-30, 5 Comments)
Django Blog Project #6: Creating standard blog views (posted 2008-06-28, 3 Comments)
How to get the current date and time in Python (posted 2008-06-26, 9 Comments)
Django Blog Project #5: YUI CSS and serving static media (posted 2008-06-16, 4 Comments)
Django Blog Project #4: Adding post metadata (posted 2008-06-10, 2 Comments)
Django Blog project #3: Using CSS and Template Inheritance (posted 2008-06-07, 3 Comments)
Mount drives manually on Ubuntu Linux (posted 2008-06-06, 1 Comment)
Django Blog Project #2: Django Webfaction deployment (posted 2008-06-06)

May

Django Blog Project #1: Creating a basic blog (posted 2008-05-09, 5 Comments)
How to paste in Cygwin bash using CTRL-V (posted 2008-05-01, 4 Comments)

April

How to use Python's enumerate and zip to iterate over two lists and their indices. (posted 2008-04-18, 3 Comments)
Recommended books (posted 2008-04-17, 2 Comments)
How to install Mercurial 1.0 on Cygwin (posted 2008-04-17, 5 Comments)
How to install Mercurial 1.0 on Ubuntu Hardy (posted 2008-04-17, 8 Comments)
Working with files and directories in Python (posted 2008-04-14)
Install coLinux (and Ubuntu Hardy) on Win XP using Slirp to internet and TAP to host behind a corporate firewall/proxy server (posted 2008-04-14, 2 Comments)

February

Backup on Linux: rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup (vs. Time Machine) (posted 2008-02-07, 23 Comments)
How to get a summary of disk usage with du (posted 2008-02-02)
Undoing changes by pppoeconf (posted 2008-02-02)
Setting up ATT Yahoo DSL with Ubuntu linux (posted 2008-02-02, 2 Comments)
Dell 530N Ubuntu vs. build it yourself (posted 2008-02-01)

January

PyQt: How to pass arguments while emitting a signal (posted 2008-01-29, 2 Comments)
Conkeror: "Firefox for Emacs users" (posted 2008-01-28, 2 Comments)
Unaswered Questions (posted 2008-01-25, 2 Comments)
How to scroll in GNU Screen (posted 2008-01-24, 4 Comments)
PyQt4 QItemDelegate example with QListView and QAbstractListModel (posted 2008-01-23)
Cygwin tips / howto's (posted 2008-01-16)
How to install pyqt4 on ubuntu linux (posted 2008-01-15, 8 Comments)
How to invert a dict in Python (posted 2008-01-14, 1 Comment)
Notes on Python variable scope (posted 2008-01-09, 21 Comments)
Saving a Python dict to a file using pickle (posted 2008-01-07, 4 Comments)
Python PyQt Tab Completion example (posted 2008-01-04)
How to use *args and **kwargs in Python (posted 2008-01-03, 45 Comments)
How to find the intersection and union of two lists in Python (posted 2008-01-03, 2 Comments)
How to capture the Tab key press event with PyQt 4.3 (posted 2008-01-03, 3 Comments)
PyQt 4.3 Simple QAbstractListModel/ QlistView example (posted 2008-01-03, 4 Comments)

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