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Using the official sqlanydb driver for Python together with Twisted’s adbapi produces not-so-occasional crashes as of today (sqlanydb 1.0.2, Twisted 11.0.0). Apparently, the official SQL Anywhere drivers aren’t thread-safe. It cost me several days to figure out because I was searching the fault in my code so I hope to spare you some pain.
I’d thought something like this is a FAQ but the database docs on postgres don’t write a bit about forcing Django to connect using SSL to the database server.
Be careful to not overeat.
It took me a while to figure it out, so I decided to share.
I spent a very frustrating hour this morning trying to get the JSON gem to work on Ruby 1.9.2 p136 installed via RVM on Snow Leopard. I thought I would post my solution to help any other unfortunate souls.
Silly me. I stumbled across a question on Stack Overflow that was right up my alley, as it was something I had worked on before: Extract Relevant Tag/Keywords from Text block. The question posted by user593778 indicated that they wanted to use PHP or JavaScript to lift relevant keywords from a block of text.
I always figure one of the best ways to learn a new language is to try out a couple of Project Euler exercises using it. I had solved this one with JavaScript previously, but using CoffeeScript let me use some more Python-style comprehensions to get to the same solution:
After a few months of use my Kindle started to freeze randomly. At first I blamed the cold as it happened to be winter in that moment. Fortunately, it turned out to be something different.
I’m currently working on a large print project. It’s a membership directory for a non-profit organization and I’m laying it out with Adobe InDesign. The client handed me a CSV dump of their member database for the directory. I’ve mentioned more times than I can count how much I dislike repetition (cutting, pasting, rinse, repeat) so I cooked up some Ruby scripts to parse the CSV into various XML and plaintext formats.
The perception of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is ambivalent. On the one hand, it is widely supported as a common authentication backend. On the other hand, there’s very little and poor documentation mainly targeted toward a particular case (for example, replacing NIS with LDAP).
Sounds harder than it is – especially when reading the official docs. But if you want to synchronize two DBs, just tell the “master” to write a log and slave to read it.
While developing a network sniffer I had to find a way to write pcap logs. However the docs I found were rather fragmented. I try to do a short roundup here. In fact, the format is pretty plain and it’s a pity that there seems not to be a quick’n’easy doc for it.