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Making an offline file system copy of a Plone site using WebDAV

You might want to create an offline copy of a Plone site because You are traveling and you want to have all files on the site (PDFs for reading) You are taking a site down and making the final back-up … Continue reading

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Enable PHP log output (error_log) on XAMPP on OSX

If you are using XAMPP to develop PHP software (WordPress, Joomla!) on OSX you might want to get some advanced logging output from your code. PHP provides nice error_log() function, but it is silent by default. Here are short instructions … Continue reading

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scp file copy with on-line compression

This might come handy if you need to copy a database file (Data.fs) from the remote server to your local computer: scp -C -o CompressionLevel=9 user@yoursite.com:~/plonefolder/zinstance/var/filestorage/Data.fs . This command line enables real-time compression with the highest compression level. This speeds … Continue reading

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Installing MySQL-python connector on OSX

Preconditions You are using MySQL installation from mysql.com (and not e.g. from Macports) You want to install MySQL-python egg using easy_install or buildout You’ll get an error Getting distribution for ‘MySQL-python’. install_dir /Users/moo/project/eggs/tmp8-j13e sh: mysql_config: command not found Traceback (most … Continue reading

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Firefox 4 is awesome – switching back to it

Firefox 4 is awesome.  After being a Google Chrome user for one year, I tried Firefox 4 beta 11. I am switching back to Firefox as my primary browser. As a web power user, I found Firefox 4 gives me … Continue reading

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My ZSH prompt and configuration for OSX and Ubuntu Linux

ZSH is a shell replacement for advanced command line users, featuring command autocompletion and such. ZSH works across OSX, BSD and Linux operating systems. Below is my .zshrc configuration file I use on OSX. It is based on Phil!’s ZSH … Continue reading

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Xcode and iPhone simulator: The application won’t launch

This is another migration issue from iOS 3.x to iOS 4.x projects. The application does not launch in XCode when running Simulator – Debug. Instead it dies (SIGABRT) before entering main(). #0 0x91a02ef6 in __kill #1 0x91a02ee8 in kill$UNIX2003 #2 … Continue reading

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Setting Google Apps hosted email as your browser’s default email client for mailto protocol

Would it be nice that when you click email link (maito) in your browser you could directly send email from your organizations’s Google Apps hosted service? (Google Apps is GMail + Google Docs for corporate/organizations with own domain name). Here … Continue reading

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Easily install all Python versions under Linux and OSX using collective.buildout.python

Here are short instructions how to install all versions (2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1) of Python interpreters on UNIX system. The instructions were tested on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Linux but should work on other systems as is. The … Continue reading

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