Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
I wrote about how I got Django setup on OS X Leopard a few days ago…I just stumbled across the BitNami Django packags: http://bitnami.org/stack/djangostack — that do more or less what I need… I’ll be experimenting, I’ll write about the pros and cons of the two approaches.
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
I’ve been playing around with OS X Leopard. I’ve also been doing a bit of django development so I figured I would setup my favorite framework and see how the process went. At first I ran into a few stumbling blocks, and all the blogs I read on the subject were unnecessarily complicated. Here is [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
Dana Gardner wrote “JVM adds to Iphones’ seduction of enterprise IT buyers” — My gut feeling is that he is totally wrong. Every JVM port sucks at integrating with its host, and it would be safe to say this port will be no different. Which means that Java APPS on the iPhone will suck, and [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
From slashdot — interesting blog post titled: “finding the os x turbo button” that takes a long hard look at the real reasons for Safari’s recent, and dramatic speed increases — Apple it seems makes use of un-documented features to give Apple apps a speed boost while leaving non-apple apps out in the cold.
On a [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi
The current Mac client for Aventail VPN WILL work under OS X Leopard — all you need to do is create a simple text file in your home directory that prevents
Open the “terminal” utilty and run the following command: touch avc.noevent
That’s it — go ahead and try connecting, should work for you now.
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Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Yousef Ourabi
I’ve been struggling for the last couple of days getting my Winamp playlist in iTunes. The playlist in question is massive (over 2000 songs long) and old, I started adding to it in 1997 (?). Itunes would read the file in, and then one of two scenarios would occur:
1) It reads in the file [...]
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