Category Archives: Programming

Managing multiple AWS identities

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

I’m running multiple different project on AWS which was so much of a pain to use, as I often find myself having to use the identity of project-a together with the official amazon ec2 tools. To help myself manage the … Continue reading →

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Django – sharing a memcached instance

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Update: Some Curious User brought to my attention, that a ticket has been opened which, when implemented, will add a setting for a cache prefix. It will also allow other cache key manipulations. Until recently I’ve been using the file:// … Continue reading →

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Django compatible PyAMF test client

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

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 →

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Choosing a font in Carbon Emacs

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

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 →

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A ongoing discussion about C and libmemcached – don’t censor me

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

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 →

Posted in Insanity, Programming, Ramblings, Rants | 5 Comments

Using mercurial with eclipse to edit actionscript files on os x

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

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 →

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Mercurial trac commit hook

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

Having searched a lot around google, it does not seem that anyone has published their trac commit hooks for mercurial. Since I had to use just that, I’ve cooked up a little hook which is based on the hook from … Continue reading →

Posted in Python, Ramblings, Work | 13 Comments

Actionscript 3 – posting XML data with URLLoader

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

So, you want to POST some XML data to a web service. Let’s for the fun of it say, that we would like to POST the following piece of XML to a PHP script: 1 <request command="run-command" />

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Fun with mod_macro and django

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

At work we yestoday decided to update our internal url structure for our client test sites, issue management systems and such arround a bit. Seeing as we decided on purchasing a genuine signed ssl wildcard certificate, we needed to change … Continue reading →

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Asynchronous socket server in python

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Mads Sülau Jørgensen

The code for a very simple asynchronous socket server written in python utilizing the asynchat module. It’s all in good fun.

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