Ubuntu 9.10: Install PIL in Virtualenv

Re-blogged from Eddie Welker I started with a –no-site-packages virtualenv, so as not to use (or more  importantly depend) on any of the global site-packages.  Ok, cool. 1$ virtualenv –no-site-packages myEnv First, I needed to install the python developer tools. [...]

Create a new Mercurial repository on Mac

Every months or so, I create a new repository for the development project I work on. But I always tend to forget how to setup the repository, so here’s a quick start quide which I found very helpful and I [...]

Sphinx start guide

Create a new doc 1. Create a new folder 2. cd to that folder 1cd /folder 3. Run sphinx-quickstart 1sphinx-quickstart 4. Generate documentation 1make html Now you may wanna create a PDF out of your documentation: I’m using Mac, so [...]

Add custom FTP user on Plesk via command line (SSH)

Plesk is a great Control Panel in the shared hosting environment, but there are a few things that are not available in the Control Panel. For example, you cannot create additional FTP user in Plesk Control panel for Linux (this [...]

Crontab – Quick Reference

Useful resource from: http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference Setting up cron jobs in Unix and Solaris cron is a unix, solaris utility that allows tasks to be automatically run in the background at regular intervals by the cron daemon. These tasks are often termed [...]

Install PHP 5.2 on Centos 5

Summary This guide describes how to upgrade the standard PHP 5.1.x packages in CentOS 5.x 32-bit to the current development versions 5.2.x. These instructions were created using CentOS 5.3 32-bit and with the following PHP packages installed: # rpm -qa [...]