Mostly Unixish
Whenever I install a production system/server I tend to enable full automatic updating, because it's usually better that something breaks because of a failed update rather than leaving a production machine unpatched; and if you pick a rather stable distribution (Centos or Ubuntu LTS are good examples)
Mostly Unixish
Some days ago I ranted about an issue I had with Mercurial and Dropbox; basically, I did put a mercurial repo in a dropbox folder, and ended up with this kind of mess Mercurial repos inside Dropbox are not a great idea after all. But I had one problem: I
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Before going on with this post, be sure you've read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - otherwise, I won't be able to solve your issues. Sometimes Java fans just say that Python Unicode support
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UPDATE: Most of this is pointless on IDEA >= 11 and PyCharm >= 2, since a Tools -> Create desktop entry menu now exists and will let you do everything my launcher did. You'll need to reinstall it at every update - or just use the symlink
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Heroku Java support is something I longed for, but they apparently don't support deploying a plain, old war file to Heroku. I don't like that; I've got my own continuous integration setup, and I want to compile my files on my own box -
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Small primer for mock javamail, a pretty useful project that will be handy whenever you need to test code that uses POP3/IMAP/SMTP and you wouldn't like to build wrappers for anything you need to test - javamail does not really offer interfaces that can be implemented
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I had some hard time when testing Twisted protocols. Although they should be decoupled from factories, most examples I could find, including those from the official doc, were just too noisy and suggested using a factory. I don't like that approach - I should not be forced to
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This is a multipart post. See part 3 Just a brief conclusion to my post sequence; the three principles for succeeding at community-driven projects are: * Make it easy for the people to give you their feedback - it's highly valuable. * Listen and reply to people's feedback.
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I've found a good way to launch tests using Twisted Trial in a zc.buildout enabled project. I was in fear of needing a full-fledged recipe - which I didn't have the time nor the will to code. Luckily, zc.recipe.egg seems good enough to
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UPDATED: IDEA entry. UPDATED: Automatic agent add script. I'm starting to like both PyCharm and RubyMine, two IDEs from IntelliJ, along with IDEA I had some problems while they were both running on Linux using a dock - I like docky - since they're both Java
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This is a multipart post. See part 2 6. State your missionWhat's your project for? Who should use it? Which platform is designed for? Answer those questions somewhere in your project page. You won't risk people looking for the wrong solution coming to you and asking
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This is a multipart article - link to part 1 3. Make it easy to report issues.Yes, your software is got a bug. Never thought about it, didn't you? And here it is. Now, users shouldn't be forced to climb mountains in order to report