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Pieces of technology interest. Newer posts →. March 2, 2012. Have just placed my order for a Raspberry Pi. Haven’t been this excited about getting a new computer/gadget since Lego Mindstorms. My current favourite hack for it is to port a BBC B emulator to it, then wire up in an old Beeb box and use it to play HD Elite on the big TV. So 1980’s. Speaking at Cassandra Europe. March 1, 2012. I’ll be speaking at Cassandra Europe. A post a day. February 29, 2012. A few key ideas seemed like they could help:.
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OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Python development environments | Attention Shard
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Pieces of technology interest. Why Tellybug moved from Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB. OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Android dev environments →. OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Python development environments. October 25, 2013. Upgrading to OS X Mavericks (10.9) broke my Python development environment by deleting the contents of /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and X11. Why an OS upgrade should be deleting things I put there is another question, but here’s how to get back up. Step 1: Get virtualenv back.
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Raspberry Pi – but not till May | Attention Shard
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Pieces of technology interest. Sniffing iOS and Android HTTP traffic →. Raspberry Pi – but not till May. March 4, 2012. When the Raspberry Pi was announced, I went and registered with both Farnell and RS for one. Alas I wasn’t one of the first 10,000, so it was waiting list time. On Thursday I got the mail saying Farnell would now take my order. Yay! Order placed, I eagerly awaited the delivery notification. Would it be a week? This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Why Tellybug moved from Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB | Attention Shard
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Pieces of technology interest. Making Django runserver more awesome. OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Python development environments →. Why Tellybug moved from Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB. September 30, 2013. Tellybug has recently moved our NoSQL database from Cassandra. In this post, I’ll explain why, how and what the results have been. In the beginning was Cassandra. At Tellybug, we’d been using Cassandra. Because running a system at 100x the capacity you need is rarely economic. Operationally, the abil...
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OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Android dev environments | Attention Shard
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Pieces of technology interest. OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Python development environments. Not a Python Programmer →. OS X Mavericks: Fixing broken Android dev environments. October 25, 2013. OS X Mavericks has also broken my Android development environment by removing ant. The fix is simple: download and install ant from http:/ ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi. While I was at it, I also updated to the latest Android SDK from developer.android.com. Not necessary, but why not while fixing things.
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Sniffing iOS and Android HTTP traffic | Attention Shard
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Pieces of technology interest. Raspberry Pi – but not till May. Making Django runserver more awesome →. Sniffing iOS and Android HTTP traffic. June 13, 2013. Sometimes when you’re debugging a problem with a remote server, only seeing the actual bits on the wire is good enough. Recently I needed to do this to confirm whether it was my app or the server that was causing a bug. In the past I’ve used HTTPScoop. My new go-to tool is Charles. Find your Mac’s IP address: at a command prompt, run. En1: flags=886...
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Making Django runserver more awesome | Attention Shard
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Pieces of technology interest. Sniffing iOS and Android HTTP traffic. Why Tellybug moved from Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB →. Making Django runserver more awesome. June 13, 2013. I’ve recently found Dave Cramer’s awesome devserver. And it already feels like an essential part of my Django toolkit. It’s a drop-in replacement for the default Django development server. But with a whole host of seriously useful additions if you care about what’s going on behind the scenes:. Log of SQL queries issued. You are ...
