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redis_git_dirty? 13 May 2012 | 08:46 am
Have you been wondering what the redis_git_dirty stat is in the Redis info command is? Me too, so I downloaded the source and started grepping. What I found was that it is a constant that is defined ...
clihelper 29 Apr 2012 | 04:22 pm
I tend to write a fair amount of command-line applications in Python that more often than not are meant to run as daemons. I also tend to use the same patterns in doing so. At first I wrote daemonizat...
Disabling default iTunes behavior with media keys in OSX 25 Dec 2011 | 09:15 am
In a search for a non-hacky way to disable direct mappings to iTunes for the play/pause/next/previous buttons in the keyboard in OSX, I stumbled across the "Remote control daemon" (rcd). As it turns o...
Survey on memcached, memoization and data storage 3 Nov 2011 | 02:01 am
Do you use memcached in your operational environment for an application? I'm looking to come up with common use (not opinion) of memcached in production environments to see if my opinions are off base...
Homebrew and RabbitMQ Plugins 12 Jun 2011 | 10:40 am
Since there is no plugin option in Homebrew's install of RabbitMQ one might have a hard time finding how to install RabbitMQ plugins. Assuming you used the default location of /usr/local for your home...
The Future of Pika 13 Mar 2011 | 11:00 am
I've been listening to a lot of the conversations at PyCon about asynchronous development. The basic sentiment I've picked up on is that Callback Passing Style (CPS) is not currently in favor in the P...
PyCon by Network Adapter Manufacturer 13 Mar 2011 | 07:00 am
On Friday, Doug Hellmann of PyMOTW fame commented on Twitter that he'd be interested in the breakdown of laptop vendors for people attending PyCon, something I had been pondering that morning as well....
Deeper down the rabbit hole of message (re)delivery 9 Mar 2011 | 08:56 am
I've posted in the past about RabbitMQ and how to get started with it. I thought I'd follow up with something that's a little deeper, but still pretty entry level from a usage perspective. I've been ...
Announcing Vorpal Bunny 0.1 25 Feb 2011 | 04:03 pm
Vorpal Bunny is an experimental rabbitmq-jsonrpc-channel PHP driver designed to allow expedited single call HTTP delivery for Basic.Publish calls to RabbitMQ. The goal is to be a light-weight tool fo...
Automagical Docstring Linking in Sphinx 5 Feb 2011 | 11:58 am
I've been trying to pick up Sphinx to document my projects and have spent a few hours today trying to force it to do what I want. In essence I was looking for a way using the autodoc functionality to ...
