Tech
hints, tips, tricks and memory aids for the slipping mind
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Reload Non-Python Files with Paster
- a quickie to get templates reloaded when edited and running under paster --reload
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Create Plone 3 Archetype Product with ZopeSkel and Buildout
- ZopeSkel can create Archetype-based products for Plone 3. Wire it up in Buildout.
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Becoming manager in ZODB
- Get manager privileges in an interactive ZODB session
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Using Aqamacs to Edit Plone Content
- A quick description to setting up a Mac to use Aquamacs to edit Plone documents. Good for Content-type: text/x-rst
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Stop spam with spamd and pf
- Turned out to be remarkably easy and effective. Wish I'd done it sooner.
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Plone UnifiedInstaller vs. Old zc.buildout eggs
- Repeated use of evolving versions of the UnifiedInstaller have different zc.buildout egg version requirements.
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Install Plone with ZopeSkel, Buildout; needs PIL
- Martin Aspeli's instructions work fine, but I had to add PIL to the buildout.cfg.
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Create a Code Swarm Animation
- Code Swarm could use a bit o' luvin' in the docs but this was pretty easy on OS X.
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readline-5.2 won't compile on OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Readline hasn't been updated as of this writing to include OS X 10.5 Leopard (Darwin 9) in its shared object configuration. This is a patched version so it builds on Leopard.
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libsvm wrapped for egg
- Stop the madness.
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FreeBSD virtualization with ezjail
- Creating isolated instances in jails, on ZFS filesystem
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Set Up a Postfix Submission Service on FreeBSD
- Instructions to set up a Postfix submission service on FreeBSD
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Subscribe to Google Groups with Non-Google Address
- Inconsistent behavior is confusing, but it's easy.

