Development related stuff
This will probably work on other versions of Ubuntu and Linux as well: Assumes you have python >= 2.6 already instaled: $ wget -P Downloads/ http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py $ sudo python Downloads/distribute_setup.py $ sudo easy_install pip
Just some notes that have accumulated: when trying to mount a remote windows NTFS system via: sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.112/E -o username=Administrator,password=mypass /home/me/mybackup/ and receiving: wrong fs type bad option bad superblock on … this is because the cifs flag requires: $ sudo apt-get install smbfs more info here Adding a program to unity …
Just putting it here since the next time it’s needed I won’t remember: ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; got it from here
I found a good walkthrough the easy way at this page I’m replicating the text here in case it’s gets lost but the credit goes to Matthew Holt _______________ What follows is the text taken from Mathew’s blog: Install Homebrew ∞ In case you haven’t already, install Homebrew by following the instructions at the bottom …
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The JavaScript Scrabble game that I wrote almost a year ago has been sitting abandoned so I released it as public domain at github for the off chance that someone would like to join the development. The game is here: http://amnond.github.io/jscrab/ It can be cloned from: https://github.com/amnond/jscrab
So, I was wondering what have I actually spent my time on and was it wisely spent ? About of month writing software to simulate forex trading. Downloaded and cleaned years of 15 minute resolution forex data – put it all in a database (sqlite) created software in C++ to test various plug-in algorithms (in …
Well, almost – but the required effect is achieved. The problem with using anchors in a dynamic web page is that you don’t always want to show the corresponding href in the browser’s status bar when the user hovers over the anchor link. Twitters Bootstrap navigation tabs are designed to work with anchor elements. I …
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Every now and then I formulate to myself some thoughts and current conclusions regarding things in general – be it life philosophy and everything that is derived from it. I’m going to start and write these down just to have them placed somewhere either for others to contemplate or for my future self to laugh …
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This is mainly a note to myself. Two tools to help convert pages from LTR to RTL text directions: RTLit Convert your CSS-formatter file from left-to-right to right-to-left http://rtlit.cloudfoundry.com/ based on: https://github.com/zohararad/rtlit (a Ruby project) CSSjanus: http://code.google.com/p/cssjanus/
When building OpenResty (the excellent Lua add-on for nginx) on OS/X I got the following error: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_pcre_free_study", referenced from: _ngx_pcre_free_studies in ngx_regex.o _ngx_http_lua_ngx_re_match in ngx_http_lua_regex.o _ngx_http_lua_ngx_re_gmatch in ngx_http_lua_regex.o _ngx_http_lua_ngx_re_sub_helper in ngx_http_lua_regex.o _ngx_http_lua_ngx_re_gmatch_cleanup in ngx_http_lua_regex.o _ngx_http_lua_ngx_re_gmatch_gc in ngx_http_lua_regex.o _ngx_http_lua_ngx_re_gmatch_iterator in ngx_http_lua_regex.o … ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 To cut …