http://www.stereoplex.com Microsoft and Open Source - there and back again, a software engineer's tale. daily 1 2007-06-17T18:15:08Z http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/django-unit-tests-and-transactions While these are more properly integration tests than unit tests, it can be handy to have Django roll back the database transaction after each test method runs. No publisher danfairs 2008-07-07T11:51:25Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/erlang-bus-error I've become interested in CouchDB, written in Erlang. My copy of the 'Programming Erlang' book arrived today, so I tried to fire up the Erlang shell - only to be greeted with a Bus Error. No publisher danfairs 2008-06-05T13:06:17Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/vmware-fusion-snapshots-and-disk-space Snapshotting your VMWare Fusion machine can start eating up disk space. This is not widely known. No publisher danfairs 2008-06-03T17:12:11Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/faster-apple-mail-faster A quick way to improve the performance of Apple Mail. No publisher danfairs 2008-05-29T08:28:51Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/how-to-kill-an-airport-extreme-base-station Apple products aren't infallible, you know. No publisher danfairs 2008-05-13T18:06:26Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/creating-a-python-2-4-plone-and-zope-development-environment-on-mac-os-x-leopard Compiling Python, Zope and Plone on Leopard isn't as easy as it is on Linux. Here's a walkthrough of the process, from a bare Leopard install right through to having a working Plone 3 development environment, using paster and buildout. No publisher danfairs 2008-05-07T16:51:41Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/import-this.net The Zen of Python doesn't just apply to Python. No publisher danfairs 2008-04-15T16:29:54Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/shared-development-databases One of the big culture shocks moving to a .NET development team was the amount of shared development infrastructure - particularly on the database side. In this post, I share some of my experiences and suggest ways that you can work around some of the impositions of shared infrastructure. No publisher danfairs 2008-05-21T19:49:27Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/django-redirects This is a quick-n-dirty app to let you set up redirects on your Django site through the admin interface. (Updated to reflect my own oversight of django.contrib.redirects, which, er, does all this for you...) No publisher danfairs 2008-03-07T23:47:53Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/using-output-parameters-with-the-enterprise-library Trying to get stored procedure output parameters working when you're using the Enterprise Library 3 can be frustrating. Here's a couple of tips to help you along. No publisher danfairs 2008-02-25T09:13:51Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/oops Why having automated tests for your web site's functionality is a good idea. No publisher danfairs 2008-02-13T09:21:48Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/asp-net-ajax-and-unknown-web-method The ASP.NET AJAX toolkit includes controls, such as the DynamicPopulateExtender, which invoke methods on the pages on which they are included to obtain data. This post looks at a common problem and its under-documentated solution. No publisher danfairs 2008-02-12T14:45:29Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/djangopeople.net-geodjango-and-postgis Michael Trier's "This Week In Django" podcast is turning into something of a gem mine. I'm particularly taken with one website he mentioned, djangopeople.net. Plus, thoughts on GeoDjango and PostGIS, and the iPhone's Wi-Fi Locations technology. No publisher danfairs 2008-02-11T16:15:46Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/error-compiling-postgresql-8.3-on-leopard-rl_completion_matches This is a brief note for those having trouble compiling the latest version of PostgreSQL on Leopard. No publisher danfairs 2008-02-29T13:40:06Z Blog Entry http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/mac-os-x-command-and-manual-search-path-path-and-manpath-for-man Mac OS X Leopard provides a simple way to manage your system-wide PATH and MANPATH for command and man pages. No publisher danfairs 2008-02-05T12:53:04Z Blog Entry