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danmackinlay / redland_build_errors .sh
Created November 24, 2010 14:21
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/issue/3348
$ brew install kdelibs
==> Downloading http://download.librdf.org/source/redland-1.0.12.tar.gz
File already downloaded and cached to /Users/dan/Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/redland/1.0.12 --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --w
==> make install
Making install in libltdl
/bin/sh /private/tmp/homebrew-redland-1.0.12-1dGP/redland-1.0.12/libltdl/config/install-sh -d .
cp ./argz_.h argz.h-t
mv argz.h-t argz.h
make install-am
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danmackinlay / berkeley-db-brew-build-errors.sh
Created November 24, 2010 07:19
build errors for https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/issue/3342
$ brew install berkeley-db
==> Downloading http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.1.19.tar.gz
File already downloaded and cached to /Users/dan/Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> ../dist/configure --disable-debug --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/berkeley-db/5.1.19 --mandir=/usr/local/Cel
==> make install
./libtool --mode=compile /usr/bin/cc -c -I. -I../src -w -pipe -O3 ../src/mutex/mut_tas.c
libtool: compile: /usr/bin/cc -c -I. -I../src -w -pipe -O3 ../src/mutex/mut_tas.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/mut_tas.o
libtool: compile: /usr/bin/cc -c -I. -I../src -w -pipe -O3 ../src/mutex/mut_tas.c -o mut_tas.o >/dev/null 2>&1
./libtool --mode=compile /usr/bin/cc -c -I. -I../src -w -pipe -O3 ../src/btree/bt_compare.c
libtool: compile: /usr/bin/cc -c -I. -I../src -w -pipe -O3 ../src/btree/bt_compare.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/bt_compare.o
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danmackinlay / detraktor.sh
Created May 19, 2010 02:17
removes overblown traktor comments from vorbis tags that mess with iTunes
#removes overblow traktor comments from vorbis tags that mess with iTunes
vorbiscomment "$1" |grep -v "^TRAKTOR4=" |vorbiscomment --write --commentfile - "$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"
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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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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) .. "..."