I’ve been working on a very simple project that allow processes or computers to communicate seamlessly using Redis as a backend. I love Redis because it’s very powerful, yet very simple to configure and use. Let’s first understand the motivation behind redique The motivation is the need for a small, cool, json-based, super-fast RPC system [...]
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Use Virtualenv with IPython 0.11
If you are a Python hacker, most likely you will be using a virtualenv for your development environment, you are probably an iPython user. Unluckily, IPython doesn’t pick the virtualenv paths by default and you will have to tweak it a little bit to make it work. Basically, this a slightly tweaked version of this [...]
Auto restarting python application
This is a cool sample on how to write an automatic self-restarting python application after a timeout, of course you can modify this application to be much more sophisticated so it can close all open files before restarting or restarting based on a signal (SIGHUP maybe?) or whatever you like
Building VirtualBox on Mac OS X Lion with Python Bindings
After building VirtualBox with VNC support in my previous post I discovered two problems with that installation (VirtualBox 4.1.2 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7): SDK was not installed by default, import vboxapi from python failed. VBox Python bindings were built for python 2.6 and segfaults on python 2.7 I contacted some guys on #vbox-dev on [...]
Introducing Kyoto Cabinet
Most developers tend to use a general purpose SQL databases for all kinds of data storage, which is okay most of the times but can add great overhead if you have a massive amount of data and when you want to minimize the deployment overhead. Different data storage databases exist to solve different programming problems, [...]
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