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Category Archives: Python

SQLAlchemy-Migrate upgrade scripts in a transaction

Written by dazza on July 27, 2008 — 8 Comments

SQLAlchemy Migrate is a really good tool for managing database upgrades for SQLAlchemy centric projects. I’ve been using it for 6 months on New Metal Army and I haven’t had a screwed website upgrade yet! For those that don’t know SQLAlchemy-migrate allows you to version control database changes and easily upgrade and downgrade a database. [...]

Also posted in NewMetalArmy, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, TurboGears

FreeBSD 7.0: installing psycopg 2.07

Written by dazza on July 23, 2008 — 5 Comments

While setting up a new FreeBSD 7.0 server I found that psycopg 2.0.7 doesn’t easy_install on FreeBSD. It’s because of a configuration problem in config.h at the bottom. #if defined(__FreeBSD__) || (defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__GNUC__)) || defined(__sun__) /* what’s this, we have no round function either? */ static double round(double num) { return (num >= 0) [...]

Also posted in Code, FreeBSD

Turbogears Development: Enviroment

Written by dazza on April 19, 2008 — 1 Comment

I thought I’d run through a list of tools that I used to make New Metal Army. New Metal Army is my first major website and I learned a lot along the way. Here are the tools in no particular order: Subversion First and foremost, subversion is a source control tool but it’s also a [...]

Also posted in NewMetalArmy, PostgreSQL, Software, Subversion, TurboGears
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