EDIT: this was due to python 2.7 incompatibility and incorrect documentation. These examples all work with python 2.6
PiCloud looks very interesting. Execute on demand python could give you a much greater level of control over cloud computing use. Now, of course, sandboxing python is not easy, despite some well known implementations.
So PiCloud [...]
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- July 26, 2010 – 8:11 am
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- By James Casbon
But these evils, though great, were small compared to
those far more deep-seated signs of disease which now
showed themselves throughout the country. One of these
was the obliteration of thrift from the minds of the ***
people. The *** are naturally thrifty; but, with such
masses of money and with such uncertainty as to its future
value, the ordinary motives [...]
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- July 9, 2010 – 12:47 pm
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So I am using textmate for my python development, but I wanted it to pick up any virtualenv configured in a project. Here’s how to hack the python bundle…
First off, the run script command needs to be aware of the virtualenv stuff. So open up the bundle editor, and replace this:
is_test_script = ENV["TM_FILEPATH"] [...]
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- December 16, 2008 – 7:19 pm
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- By James Casbon
RentalRights looks like it is finally getting a campaign together to organise in support of people who rent. If you rent and live in the uk you should check it out. No other country seems to treat tenants so badly.
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- December 3, 2008 – 9:01 pm
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- By James Casbon
Insteresting stuff for January 12th through March 7th:
Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux – nt tree, see apt-file code example below. To find out what libraries are needed use the ldd command – be aware that the file you think starts the application is often a script, and you may have to dig [...]
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- March 8, 2008 – 7:27 am
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- By James Casbon
Insteresting stuff for January 4th through January 11th:
financial reality » Blog Archive » Minsky Has His Moment –
50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging : MoneyRumour.com –
ie7-js – Google Code –
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine –
Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection » Bad COPP No Netflix [...]
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- January 12, 2008 – 12:30 am
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- By James Casbon
Insteresting stuff for December 31st through January 3rd:
ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31) –
SRA / Society for Risk Analysis / April 2006 Press Release –
American Scientist Online – The Easiest Hard Problem –
Pay Option ARM’s – California’s Billion Pound Gorilla | Loan Modification & Loan Workout News –
Index of [...]
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- January 4, 2008 – 12:34 am
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- By James Casbon
These are my links for December 21st through December 30th:
Lawlor-Pollock News & Updates -
How SUVs Can Save the Climate � Sightline Institute -
pybeanstalk – Google Code -
Index of /~ben/funkload -
Nose Plugins: Home -
Johnny Chung Lee – Human Computer Interaction Research -
Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python – Michael G. Noll -
Is There Anything Good [...]
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- December 31, 2007 – 2:11 pm
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- By James Casbon
Worth watching
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- December 22, 2007 – 6:31 pm
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- By James Casbon
As seen on the excellent music thing
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- September 23, 2007 – 7:05 pm
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- By James Casbon