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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.
"""
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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
"""
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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.
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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
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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) .. "..."
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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
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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 {
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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[
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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))
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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"