In python, for cropping image I use PIL. However the dependencies of PIL is huge, also need to install some lib*-dev packages. So I choose go to crop images: Usage: % go run crop.go large.jpeg thumbnail.jpg
Create file with random string in python
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#!/usr/bin/env python import string import random out_file = 'text_file.txt' file_size = 1024 * 1024 rands = lambda x: ''.join(random.choice(string.letters + string.digits) for x in xrange(x)) with open(out_file, 'w') as f: f.write(rands(file_size)) |
Increase uwsgi_buffer_size to run django-openid-auth on dotCloud
To enable Django OpenID authentication, I choose django-openid-auth. But when I deploy to dotcloud, there’s a ‘404’ as welcome message :p
MySQL Connector C++ on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
I’ve trying to use MySQL Connector C++ for my project, here the example code (retrieved from official site):
Compile and Install Growl 1.3 via XCode 4.3 on Lion
Growl notifier has been updated to 1.3.x last year, and it also became a paid software. Since it’s open-sourced, so I decided to build it myself. The steps are quite simple, just follow the documentation you will be fine. Just be sure you have mercurial (hg) command line tools.
WordPress on dotcloud
My AWS EC2 free tier is expired, so I switched to a fully-dotcloud-hosted site (originally I’ve host MySQL on dotcloud). Here are some notes we need to take care.
Using ssh to upgrade wordpress plugins
Using ftp to upgrade wordpress plugins is not a safe way: you will need to open the ftp port and have a ftpd daemon just for upgrading wordpress.