Python + Web Developement

Published on Jan. 25, 2006

A developer just showed me an interesting framework to produce python-backed sites VERY quickly. This is mainly for you Ian, it natively supports AJAX as well. Here's the link: http://www.turbogears.org/ I watched the demo, pretty interesting. Read more.

AWS in Python (REST)

Published on March 3, 2007

As some of you may know, I have some projects cooked up. I don't expect to make a million bucks (wish me luck!), but a few extra bills in the pocket wouldn't hurt. Plus, I'm highly considering further education, which will set me back a few-thirty grand. That said, one ... Read more.

Python, AST and SOAP

Published on March 7, 2007

For one of my projects I need to generate thumbnails for a page. And lots and lots and lots of them. Even though I can generate them via a python script and a very light "gtk browser", I would prefer to mitigate the server load. To do this I've decided ... Read more.

Zenity GUI to a Shell Script

Published on Oct. 21, 2007

I have to admit, I'm pretty lazy. I don't (ironically) like to type, and I really don't like typing the same command over and over. I found myself switching between my external monitor and laptop quite frequently, and decided to somewhat automate the task. Although I know there are other ... Read more.

Installing Mapnik on Ubuntu 7.10

Published on April 19, 2008

I have managed to install mapnik 0.4, 0.5, 0.5.1 and various SVN releases in-between on Ubuntu. While this isn't in itself exciting, I think I manage to stumble at every installation. I typically forget to add the flags when building, so, to prevent myself from stumbling again, I'm going to ... Read more.

Another Baby Step

Published on April 29, 2008

I showed a few of my co-workers my graph and one replied -- oh! that's really cool. (I think only two of my co-workers are actually interested in my geekyness). He then emailed me tonight a .kmz file containing a colorized file of his speed. I looked at the kml ... Read more.

GUI to Plot Driving Speed

Published on May 27, 2008

I needed another Python fix, and I need one pretty badly. I spent the weekend wondering why it appears to be impossible to edit the GUIDs inside an Exchange mailbox store (read: NOT the GUIDs stored in AD for Exchange). Anyways, I digress. My goals were simple. I wanted to ... Read more.

Slope Finder for the Missus

Published on Nov. 2, 2008

Since I do sysadminy stuff all day, I don't really get a chance to do much coding (or not as much of a chance as I would like). You can imagine my joy when my girlfriend expressed a problem she needed solved: "I'm going to need to solve 100s of ... Read more.

Integrating OSSEC with Cisco IOS

Published on Nov. 15, 2008

I rank OSSEC as one of my favorite pieces of open source software, and finally decided to play around with it more in my own free time. (Yup, I do this sort of stuff for fun). My goal was quite simple: send syslog packets from my Cisco to my "proxy" ... Read more.

ISO Code Error

Published on June 17, 2009

I've received this error a few times when working with pytz: Error reading file '/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml' In short, install the 'iso-codes' package in Ubuntu/Debian. I'm sure this is covered in the manual that I didn't read, but I'm sure others didn't read it too. ... Read more.

Most Frequently Used French Words

Published on Aug. 30, 2009

Status: 90% I'm currently studying French with my partner, and if you've read any of this site, you'll notice I'm a bit of a techie. Often several of my interests collide, which is what happened today. I was searching for the "most frequent french words," and while I found ... Read more.

Zenoss Default Password

Published on Dec. 20, 2008

I've evaluated Zenoss before, but forgot the default password, and searching for it didn't come up with anything quickly. I tried everything under the sun: password, 1234, admin, God, Sex, but alas, grep to the rescue: kelvin@monitor:/usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/etc$ grep admin * hubpasswd:admin:zenoss Update: it ... Read more.

Using Django with SQL Server and IIS

Published on Nov. 8, 2008

As you can tell from reading some of the other pages, I like Linux and open source. But I also like to answer the question "what if..." This post is my [brief] run down of answering "what if I could run Django on Server 2003 with SQL Server and IIS." ... Read more.

PyGTK + py2exe for Windows

Published on Nov. 2, 2008

I'm writing down these quick notes so I can remember the steps for getting py2exe to work with GTK. Download the GTK+ runtime Download py2exe Copy over your project into the windows box Create a setup.py file (see below) Run "c:\Python25\python.exe setup.py py2exe" Copy over the lib, etc, and ... Read more.

GovHack 2009

Published on Nov. 2, 2009 under Australia

Everybody on our team basically managed to stay up the entire night - not one wink of sleep for most of us. It has been years since I last pulled an all-nighter - but they've always been for good causes. I just did another one - and has an ... Read more.