Author archives: Mike

Been doing system-level wiring for a low-level process for the last few hours, target is Fedora 10, so I can (theoretically) use Upstart for the init scripts... pretty slick stuff, the configs are simple, and I can create my 4-5 somewhat-interdependent processes such that they just kick each other off based on sending events.  The ...

Say you have a PKCS#7 file with an embedded code-image as a field, how would you go about extracting that field's contents?  pyOpenSSL doesn't seem to have mechanisms for extracting/viewing arbitrary fields from PKCS7.  pyasn1 can load the structures, but of course it doesn't have access to the meaning of the fields, and it doesn't ...

Having just written yet another module to pack/unpack data into a particular binary format, I'm wondering if someone has a more effective method they'd like to share?  I'm thinking some module that can handle RLE/TLV type stuff, complex "encodings" such as utf-8 continued charcters, struct-like pack/unpack for static elements, efficient loading of arrays, and bit-field ...

Adds support for instantiating Beaker's Cache from the config file (i.e. you can do cache-specific operations such as edge-triggered-cache-clearing in your utility scripts).  That's mostly useful if you have content-modifying scripts and want to clear/populate the cache when the script runs. Available in PyPI.

Say you were writing a major standard, something implemented by thousands of companies. Say, one which specified, among other things, a format for public key files. Might it be appropriate to say "use a BER-encoded x509" certificate (with some (standard) x509 extensions)? Or would you:

• declare that you require a "special" binary format for your ...

Setting up networking on a remote machine is a bit of a pain.  If you happen to make the smallest of slips your ssh session gets black-holed and you're up it.  You can try using a `shutdown +10 -r` command in another session to reboot-on-failure, but there's always the chance that you forget to set ...

Marius contributed quite a few changes (restructuring to support VirtualEnv-ing, enhanced percentage reporting), the source-code-view is also there, the home-view is more likely to be reasonable (though it can still get messed up with threaded views).  SquareMap is now explicitly a dependency and has been restructured to work with `setuptools develop` in a virtualenv.  Available ...

Say you were writing a program that takes a "config-file" parameter and you were (explicitly) passed a filename that, for whatever reason, you couldn't load. Is the proper operation to exit and report an error, log a warning and continue with defaults, or load a default filename silently?

In this particular case, app-armour was configured ...

Have spent rather a lot of time trying to wrestle the deployment docs into shape for the TurboGears 2.1 release.  Even with all that work, only the "standard deployment pattern" is really in "good" shape.  Alternative servers, alternative deployment styles, etceteras are all still needing lots of love.  I am, however, I think, finished with ...

There was a request from one of the RedHat guys to add a source-code view to RunSnakeRun so that users can just flip over to see the code which is running slow when they are exploring a profile.  wx.py makes that pretty easy, so bzr head now supports it.

Want to maybe add a call-tree ...