Maciej Konieczny aka narf narfdotpl

Oh, the joys of running tests with Johnny Cache on...

ipdb> Currency.objects.all()
[]
ipdb> Currency.objects.get(symbol='EUR')
<Currency: EUR/PLN>
ipdb> Currency.objects.count()

0

Mini based cars

Photographs from Wikipedia articles:

Mini Cooper

context:

To fix plotting in Octave.app in latest Snow Leopard (10.6.6 at the moment of writing) change /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot as follows:

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ ROOT=`(cd "${BASE}" 2>/dev/null && pwd)`
 # startup the Gnuplot program.
 GNUPLOT_HOME="${ROOT}"
 PATH="${ROOT}/bin:${PATH}"
-DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}"

+DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ROOT}/lib"

MySQLdb, Python 2.5 and OS X 10.6

I wasted too much time trying to make MySQLdb work with Python 2.5 (mysteriously it worked fine with 2.7). I thought I'll share my experience.

I installed MySQLdb normally with pip install MySQL-python (yeah, ingenious name) and there were no problems. But every time I imported it, I got following error:

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# encoding: utf-8
	"""
	Get list of JavaScript game engines ordered by number of watchers at GitHub.
	"""

	import json

	from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
	import requests

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# encoding: utf-8
	"""
	Invalidate Johnny Cache's cache for given models outside "normal Django"
	(e.g. in a management command).
	"""

	from johnny.cache import invalidate
	from johnny.middleware import QueryCacheMiddleware

	# source of a massive memory leak in a Django app (if obj is QuerySet):
	if not obj:
	return None

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	sudo curl -L http://3.narf.pl/iTunes.icns > /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunes.icns
	echo 'relog, remove itunes from dock, go to /Applications and drag it back'

	-- mysql unicode ffs
	DROP DATABASE foo;
	CREATE DATABASE foo CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;