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danmackinlay / prowl_monitor.py

Created August 26, 2009 04:05

load-monitoring script that pushes notifications to prowl when something goes wrong

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	"""
	load-monitoring script that pushes notifications to growl when something goes wrong

	requires jacobb's prowlpy http://github.com/jacobb/prowlpy/tree/master - and a prowl
	account (http://prowl.weks.net/)

	this version, with a "panic" function, is untested.
	"""

danmackinlay / lock.py

Created August 27, 2009 02:04

django- or FS-based contextmanager-friendly locks for python

	"""
	various ways of acquiring cross-process locks on a string including a django one
	http://www.evanfosmark.com/2009/01/cross-platform-file-locking-support-in-python/

	needs test coverage, but won't get it here since I've just removed it from the project.

	`with` statement requires python 2.5 or later; these may work as non-with statement doohickeys
	django locks require version 1.0 or later to get the "force_insert" argument
	"""

danmackinlay / supervisord.sh

Created August 27, 2009 07:07

an init.d script for supervisord

	#! /bin/sh
	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: supervisord
	# Required-Start: $remote_fs
	# Required-Stop: $remote_fs
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: Example initscript
	# Description: This file should be used to construct scripts to be
	# placed in /etc/init.d.

danmackinlay / supervisord.ini

Created August 27, 2009 07:10

a supervisord minimal config for running e.g. a persistent process queue.

	[program:queuewalker]
	command = /project_path/manage.py process_queue
	redirect_stderr = true
	user=www-data
	umask=002

	[supervisord]
	logfile = /var/log/supervisord.log
	logfile_maxbytes = 50MB
	logfile_backups=10

danmackinlay / mysql_logger.lua

Created August 27, 2009 09:17

quick little script for mysql_proxy's lua interpreter to show you when queies start and end so you can see if some are timing out. helps if you don't have control of the server

	local log_file = 'mysql.log'
	local fh = io.open(log_file, "a+")

	function read_query( packet )
	if string.byte(packet) == proxy.COM_QUERY then
	local query = string.sub(packet, 2)
	local q = query
	local cutoff = 160
	if cutoff < #query then
	q = query:sub(1, cutoff) .. "..."

danmackinlay / friendfeed_private_syndicator.py

Created September 3, 2009 05:37

syndicates private friend-feed groups with read-only public feeds

	# −− coding: UTF−8 −−
	"""
	quick/dirty private feed exposer
	http://friendfeed.com/api/documentation
	http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyRSS2Gen.html
	http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/
	http://labix.org/python-dateutil
	"""
	import settings
	from settings import FF_BASE_URL, FF_API_BASE_URL, FF_REMOTE_KEY, FF_FEED, FF_NICKNAME, FF_CONSUMER_SECRET, OUTPUT_CACHE_DIR, INPUT_CACHE_DIR

danmackinlay / index.html

Created October 8, 2009 13:05

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>NetCultures blog test</title>
	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
	#header h1 {
	color: pink;
	}
	#header {

danmackinlay / index.html

Created October 22, 2009 07:30

netcultures walk through of beautifying google's horrible javascript spreadsheet mapper

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
	<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
	<script>
	google.load("jquery", "1.3");
	</script>
	<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=ABQIAAAArYqxP8iD7yfYTxrLYQmwehT2yXp_ZAY8_ufC3CFXhHIE1NvwkxT6VZV_KCSABr9_i4BGpMSXan7nig"
	type="text/javascript">
	</script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	//<![CDATA[

danmackinlay / interleave.py

Created March 4, 2010 06:02

	# !/bin/env/python

	# or depending how you want to think about it, inverse frequencies. Cahnge these to get different interleaving
	A_FREQUENCY = 3
	B_FREQUENCY = 5

	#two nice friendly looking sequences of the form 'a99','a98','a97'...
	#(reverse order so we get the correct order with pop())
	a = map( lambda x: 'a'+str(x), range(100,0,-1))
	b = map( lambda x: 'b'+str(x), range(100,0,-1))

danmackinlay / ensure_mate.scpt

Created March 5, 2010 07:02

	-- invoke with $ osascript ensure_mate.scpt /path/to/project
	-- or create a wrapper script that looks like this:
	-- #!/bin/sh
	-- osascript ~/bin/ensure_mate.scpt $@ &
	-- Created 2010 Dan MacKinlay and hereby released into the public domain
	on run (wantedPath)
	set wantedPathFound to false
	global wantedDoc

	tell application "TextMate"

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