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Keeping ssh connections alive
I’ve got nothing more to say than: mads@workmads ~ % cat .ssh/config ServerAliveInterval 60 Happy ssh’ing.
Python http_head method
Seeing as there is no really easy way to do a HTTP HEAD request from python, I wrote up the following small method: In advance I’d like to apologize for the method that assemblies the request path. Update: Added handling … Continue reading
Formatting xml with xmllint
I keep forgetting how to format and indent xml from the command line. The tool xmllint does a fine job of doing just that, which has saved me numerous times whilst working with sports results. So. Much. Data. Running xmllint … Continue reading
Very simple email sending method in python
I needed to send an email, so I came up with this: def send_plain_mail(subject, body, from_mail, to): import smtplib from email.MIMEText import MIMEText from email.Encoders import encode_quopri msg = MIMEText(body, ‘plain’, ‘iso-8859-1′) msg[’Subject’] = subject msg[’From’] = … Continue reading
Concurrent aacgain on iTunes library
Lets face it, I’m way to lazy to write blog posts at the moment, so I’m just going to publish some python code that i wrote today. It’s a program that runs aacgain on all the albums in your iTunes … Continue reading
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Django compatible PyAMF test client
While working on a project using PyAMF today, i was about to write a unittest of a service method, when I realized that it would be harder than necessary to make unittests of the service. The cause of this is, … Continue reading
New theme
I figured, that with all the past year has brought, it was about time with a change of appearance. At some point I might make my own wordpress theme, but until that day I’ll be using infimum which, as you … Continue reading
Choosing a font in Carbon Emacs
It took me a while of messing with fontsets and various other settings, before i came across how to select fonts in the Emacs wiki: M-x mac-font-panel-mode and pick the font you want. M-x describe-font and copy the font name … Continue reading
A ongoing discussion about C and libmemcached – don’t censor me
And there I was, happy as a 4-year old who had just found a whole box of strawberries. Then all of a sudden, along came a post about how Amir Salihefendic had made a little daemon in C, using libevent … Continue reading
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Using mercurial with eclipse to edit actionscript files on os x
We have recently switched to use mercurial as our DVCS. We’re hosting our many repositories on bitbucket. I love it. When it comes to actionscript files, flash has always had odd newlines. For some reason, it has always used \r … Continue reading