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Monthly Archives: January, 2008

FreeBSD 6.3 and Turbogears

I upgraded a test server to FreeBSD 6.3 (released a few days ago) and all was working well apart from my TurboGears app. I run a TurboGears instance behind mod_wsgi and it wouldn’t start. Here is the error I got in http_errors.log [Sat Jan 19 11:32:42 2008] [error] [client 207.155.93.149] mod_wsgi (pid=1292): Exception occurred within [...]

Buying Photoshop is more expensive then downloading it… no really

I’ve been using GIMP for image editing but to be honest it’s just not cutting it especially when it comes to EPS files. I love GIMP and I respect all the hard work people have put in to it. I also respect all the hard work people have put in to Photoshop. I don’t need [...]

Python Style Plugins Made Easy

Sometimes you need to write code that loads python at runtime. Plugin architectures are a good example of this. Plugins allow extensibility but more importantly (for me at least) they enforce a strict API. Anyway, I’ve written this code a few times so I thought I’d modularize it. The specific bit of code I am [...]