Posts for software
Installing GeoDjango with PostgreSQL and zc.buildout
The installation of the PostgreSQL requirements is somewhat daunting. I've spent a bit of time putting together a buildout.cfg to try to make this easier.
VMWare Fusion guests with a static IP
The article that I followed to get a static IP for VMWare fusion guests seems to have been removed, so in the name of preserving this knowledge I'm reproducing the salient parts here.
Erlang Bus Error
I've become interested in CouchDB, written in Erlang. My copy of the 'Programming Erlang' book arrived today, so I tried to fire up the Erlang shell - only to be greeted with a Bus Error.
VMWare Fusion, Snapshots and Disk Space
Snapshotting your VMWare Fusion machine can start eating up disk space. This is not widely known.
TFS, Force Get, and Get Specific Version
When TFS tells you something, you want to think twice about whether you believe it.
Programming with Passion
Software engineering shouldn't be 9 to 5 job. It should be a source of constant intellectual stimulation, in an environment of constant change. However, experience tells me that there are plenty of people for whom programming is the process by which a specification document is turned into a paycheck.
A Django image thumbnail filter
Django filters are a pretty cool idea. I needed to be able to generate image thumbnails. I found some existing code, and fixed it up to, well, work, and also behave better with custom upload_to locations.
Subversion: MKCOL 405 Method Not Allowed
Having fixed extensive breakage after an update to Apache 2.2, I was left with one final, strange error message to solve.
