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AT&T Hackathon Dallas

I never attended a Hackathon before, but I thank God for me attending this one. Guess who won first place... Pastie Cam was definitely an interesting prototype that Brian, from Sencha, really liked. Thanks to all who attended, you made it fun. http://cingularddp.lithium.com/t5/AT-T-Developer-Program-Blogs/AT-amp-T-Mobile-App-Hackathon-Dallas-Recap/ba-p/30367

Text Sherlock the OpenGrok alternative (Source Code Search Engine)

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OpenGrok has taken much to long to setup in the past, so in my dissatisfaction, I wrote Text Sherlock . Text Sherlock strives to be an easy to setup version of OpenGrok , written in Python. Think of Text Sherlock as a personal source code search engine. But, it can be run from a dedicated server. Features: It has built-in support for whoosh and xapian backends. It provides a web search interface similar to GitHub. It quickly installs. Set the configuration options in the local_settings.yml script. Then run an installation script in your install directory. Once done, everything is a simple command. Web search interface. Matched document interface. Well documented and it works as expected. Check it out and drop a comment or submit an issue via GitHub. https://github.com/cbess/text-sherlock

116 Music. Unashamed Music.

116 Music ( http://solatunes.com ) In case you love music as much as I do. Check out that site. Seriously good, legal music, for free. Real muzik. Mobile version of the site is worth seeing by itself. For Jesus' glory.

virtualenv and fabric fun (for django)

I enjoy Fabric and virtualenv with django. What I don't like is this error: [code] File "manage.py", line 2, in ? from django.core.management import execute_manager ImportError: No module named django.core.management [/code] What I did... was fix it. I tried the ` source virtualenv/path/activate && python manage.py blah ` CLI stuff. Didn't work. So pulling out my hack the CLI (linux admin) side of my brain I devised two ways of fixing it. 1. Modify your manage.py she-bang (#!) line to point to your python interpreter of choice (usually the virtualenv one). 2. cd into your app directory (which has the manage.py script) and prepend the absolute path to your python interpreter . Both were tested and both worked perfectly. I am using option #2 , since it will remain in my fabfile and anytime I deploy my virtualenv, I won't have to remember to modify the manage.py file. If anyone has a more stable or 'sure fire' way to void

Long time no post

I've been acquired by Bottle Rocket . I've been there for a lil' bit and... It's been a blessing. Working at Bottle Rocket is better than I thought. Plenty of smart folks, great freebies and top-notch resources. The Lord is good.