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/*
 * Mclarens Bar: Redis based Instant Messaging
 * Nikhil Marathe - 22/04/2010

 * A simple example of an IM client implemented using
 * Redis PUB/SUB commands so that all the communication
 * is offloaded to Redis, and the node.js code only
 * handles command interpretation,presentation and subscribing.
 * 
 * Requires redis-node-client and a recent version of Redis

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    # temporary hack to address bug with vagrant-vbguest installation
    # https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/4962
    if awk "BEGIN {exit `vagrant -v` == "1.7.1" ? 0 : 1 }"
    then
      sudo sed -i .original 's/\*\*opts/opts/g' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.7.1/lib/vagrant/machine.rb
    fi

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Python Excel Mini Cookbook

Original post at: http://pythonexcels.com/python-excel-mini-cookbook/

To get you started, I’ve illustrated a number of common tasks you can do with Python and Excel. Each program below is a self contained example, just copy it, paste it and run it. A few things to note:

These examples were tested in Excel 2007, they should work fine in earlier versions as well after changing the extension of the file within the wb.SaveAs() statement from .xlsx to .xls If you’re new to this, I recommend typing these examples by hand into IDLE, IPython or the Python interpreter, then watching the effect in Excel as you enter the commands. To make Excel visible add the line excel.Visible = True after the excel =win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application') line in the script These are simple examples with no error checking. Make sure the output files doesn’t exist before running the script. If the script crashes, it may leave a copy of Excel running in the background. Open the Windows T

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from psycopg2.extras import DictCursor
from django.db import connections

def get_cursor(alias='default', cursor_factory=None):
    # map from django's ORM layer to the raw DB cursor.

    wrapped_conn = connections[alias]

    # hack to ensure connection is immediately opened:
    if wrapped_conn.connection is None:

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import webbrowser
from threading import Timer

os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "webapp.settings"

import cherrypy

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# Extension of http://www.yilmazhuseyin.com/blog/dev/create-thumbnails-imagefield-django/

# Note: image_folder and thumbnail_folder are both a callable (ie. a lambda that does a '/'.join())

class Image(Media):
    image = models.ImageField(
        upload_to=image_folder
    )

    thumbnail = models.ImageField(

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# Redis install instructions for systems without upstart
mkdir ~/redis
cd ~/redis
wget --no-check-certificate http://github.com/antirez/redis/tarball/v2.0.0-rc4 -O redis_v2.0.0-rc4.tar.gz && tar --strip-components 1 -xzvf redis_v2.0.0-rc4.tar.gz
make
sudo mv redis-server /usr/local/bin/
sudo mv redis-cli /usr/local/bin/
sudo mv redis-benchmark /usr/local/bin/
sudo mv redis-check-dump /usr/local/bin/
sudo mkdir /var/lib/redis

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echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

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javascript:(function() {
	var bookmarklet = {
		init: function() {
			this.parse();
		},
		parse: function() {
			page = "";
			
			/* you must be viewing songs ie. http://www.rdio.com/people/nloko/collection/songs/ 
			when exporting a collection and this will only export the songs loaded in view, 

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; Sample supervisor config file.

[unix_http_server]
file=/tmp/supervisor.sock   ; (the path to the socket file)
;chmod=0700                 ; sockef file mode (default 0700)
;chown=nobody:nogroup       ; socket file uid:gid owner
;username=user              ; (default is no username (open server))
;password=123               ; (default is no password (open server))

;[inet_http_server]         ; inet (TCP) server disabled by default