http://www.zen-hacking.com Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:01:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Getting python-mysql to work under OS X has always required a bit of prodding. Here's what worked for me after upgrading to Snow Leopard: Make sure you are running the 32-bit (x86) version of MySQL. The python bindings compile against the 64-bit version, but don't seem to work. Get ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2009/09/01/python-mysql-under-snow-leopard/ Something I whipped up recently and wanted to share: Slim is a module for Axiom Stack that can automatically create minified, concatenated copies of your client-side javascript and css. It takes care of which version to include in your page headers: you can switch back and forth between the minified ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2009/08/07/slim/ One of the projects I work on, Axiom Stack, has been through three different version control systems. It was originally hosted in Subversion. We moved to Baazar about half a year ago because we needed a sane branching/merging system. Now we're switching again, this time to Git.[*] With ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2009/03/20/changing-commit-authors-in-git/ Long time no post. As freeing as constraints are, I think I've been putting a few bogus constraints on myself that've kept me from writing here lately. With apologies to Jeff Atwood, I'm going to call this the Coding Horror Trap. For all of Jeff's regular self-deprecation, he consistently ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2009/03/20/unrepentant-metapost/ A few weeks ago, I switched from using Subversion to Bazaar for versioning my projects at work. So far, my impressions have been overwhelmingly positive. Bazaar is a distributed version control system- unlike Subversion, which has a master repository that everyone checks out and must synchronize with, every Bazaar repository ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2008/08/10/bazaar-first-impressions/ (Or, structured posts are for godless weenies.) I've been working on a web app tailored for the iPhone for the last few weeks, over at searchableradio.com. It's got me seriously debating between waiting to see how the first Android phones turn out and getting one of them iThingys once the initial ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2008/07/23/to-iphone-or-not-to-iphone/ File under: wait, what? http://www.zen-hacking.com/2008/03/28/nonstandard-http-headers/ Or, Who Let The Author Near A Hacksaw? I'm one of those unlucky people who's naturally prone to RSI symptoms. I've managed to get ergonomically-minded workstations set up both at home and at work, so I'm doing pretty well these days. That said, over the last month or so, ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2008/02/04/keyboard-modifications/ Laws of Software Development: A great collection of pithy laws put forth by various hackers, usually with a bent towards the "ha ha only serious" kind of humor. I can only offer Mayfield's First Law: The degree to which an error message is inappropriate and/or funny is directly proportional to the ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2007/07/19/its-the-law/ For the past few years, I've been kicking around the idea of a general framework for AI development using high-level dynamic languages. It's one of those grandiose ideas that's oh-so-hard to get off the ground and I've had several false starts on its development. Over my spare time ... http://www.zen-hacking.com/2007/07/10/gibson-ai-scripting-prototype/