Category Archives: Python

Image Exporter for Fusion Charts

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Michael Schurter

I wrote an image exporter for Fusion Charts while working for YouGov/Polimetrix, and someone recently asked if they could use it as well. You’ll have to alter it a bit because it was written for a custom CherryPy-based framework. It … Continue reading →

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Tokyo {Cabinet, [Py]Tyrant} Talk

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Michael Schurter

I did an introductory talk on Tokyo Cabinet, Tokyo Tyrant, pytc, and PyTyrant at the Portland Python User Group meeting last night. It was definitely just an introductory talk, so if you’re already familiar with these projects it probably won’t … Continue reading →

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(Yet Another) Deploying Django with CherryPy Script

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Recently I deployed a Django project on an OSX server. I foolishly thought this would be as easy as on Linux until I ran into the mess that is x86_64 Apache + mod_wsgi* + Django + psycopg2 + i386 PostgreSQL. … Continue reading →

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Time to Learn Git?

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Update: Doh! Sorry for flooding everyone’s feed readers with my epic post. Evidently WordPress ignored my “more” tag. I think I ran into this problem before… Update 2: Retracted the meaningless Google Trends point. Thanks to commenters for pointing out … Continue reading →

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Web Server Quandary

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Apache was probably the first Linux application I learned how to configure. However, I’ve gotten a bit frustrated with it recently… The Problem A memory leak. Apache is eating up memory so quickly that I need to restart it every … Continue reading →

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Join #webdevpdx on Freenode

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Chris just created a channel for web developers in Portland, OR on Freenode, so if you’re a web developer (or sysadmin or dba or designer or manager forced to deal with us webdevs) come on in! #webdevpdx on irc.freenode.net New … Continue reading →

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