Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “howto”
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Unit Testing Guidelines — pylonshq v0.0 documentation
Pylons'/Pyramid's new unit testing guidelines. *Very* good stuff here.
TMUX – The Terminal Multiplexer (Part 1) | Hawk Host Blog
Everyone's been telling me to check out tmux, and now I'm glad I did. Really cool - I can't wait for part 2.
Ksplice » Source diving for sysadmins - System administration and software blog
Fantastic article about how to effectively dive into the source to debug problems with a system in production. A bit of a misleading title: anyone who deploys open source code should know how to do this stuff.
GPG Quick Start
Very simple, plain-English “getting started with GPG” guide.
A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works
Matt Haughey: “maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products”
Feeding the Cloud: Finding the size of a Postgres database on disk
We were just discussing the easiest way to do this at LPDN last night.
How to upgrade to Django Comments 1.0 | patrickbeeson.com
Great guide to upgrading from pre-1.0 django.comments to the version in 1.0.It's quite a bit better than the one in the docs, which probably means I should ask Patrick if I can adapt this into the documentation proper.
Mash-up making 101? | Ask Metafilter
Some great links.
How to undo a commit in subversion
I *always* forget how to do this. Maybe now I won't anymore.
Cool Tool: Home Carbonation System
I've got to make me one of these — I drink *way* too much seltzer.
livinghardknox » Blog Archive » Django and the iPhone
Sweet - someone wrote up the (simple) steps to getting Django running on an iPhone. Now I don't have to!
XML.com: Moving to OpenOffice: Batch Converting Legacy Documents
How to script conversion of documents through OpenOffice (and a big wad of duct tape). Works with NeoOffice, too!
Hack the iPhone - Ringtone installation instructions
How to install custom ringtones on your iPhone. Not all that interesting, but after step 14 you've got a fully read/write iPhone root filesystem. So far most things you might want to try will brick the phone, but stay tunned — this'll get good soon…
The Transom Review: Ira Glass
Advice on making radio from Ira Glass.
WiZeR » Blog Archive » How to make Newspaper Pots
Great idea for seedlings; those little seed pots are fucking expensive and the damn Sunday NYT is huge.
Enable SSH Without Opening the Apple TV - AwkwardTV
Looks like it's now possible to mod the TV without cracking the case.
eG Forums -> Knife Maintenance and Sharpening
Holy crap - more than you ever wanted to know about knife sharpening.
A Beginner's Guide and Tutorial to Geocaching A High-Tech Treasure Hunt
A very good guide to getting into geocaching. Doesn't just mention the hows and wheres, but actually goes into a bunch of the etiquette and norms of the game.
Tw_cli < FIOgroup < TWiki
Good notes on using tw_cli for the 3ware RAID cards.
HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML
Awesome. I know about 30 people who need to read this yesterday.
Packaging tips for unofficial Debian packages
“This page offers some tips and tricks on how to build and maintain an unofficial Debian package repository” — does this stuff apply to Ubuntu too (I imagine so…)
HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod - Engadget
With instructions on how to enable iPod Download again!