Monthly Archives: October 2009

The difference between a working tree, repository, branch, and checkout in the Bazaar version control system

By Ammon | October 20 2009

I love using Bazaar for version control! It allows me to work on the same files as my buddies without accidentally overwriting their work. I’m also free to experiment and refactor without fear, because I can just revert my files to previous (working) version if I screw everything up. The key to understanding version control [...]

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Fixed my site

By Ammon | October 9 2009

LastPass, my fave password manager, was doing funny things with WordPress, reposting and deleting my blog posts. Weird. Fixed now.

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iPython is super sweet!

By Ammon | October 9 2009

You were right Evan, I was lost but now I’m found: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ HUGE improvement on the beautiful Python interpreter. Tab completion! Bash commands! Yes!

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As if I needed one more reason to hate Microsoft…

By Ammon | October 8 2009

Microsoft has now made it impossible to test their stupid browsers with IE Application Compatibility VPC Images on anything but their crappy Virtual PC running on a Windows machine: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21712 Ooooohhhh the hate. I hope Bill Gates gets the hugest hemroid in the world for this. I hope it explodes all over his wife’s face.

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Something is wrong with my blog

By Ammon | October 8 2009

It keeps deleting posts. I’ll figure it out tomorrow.

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Execute scripts from the Python interpreter

By Ammon | October 5 2009

>>> execfile(‘myscript.py’) # Execute ‘myscript.py’

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Change current working directory from inside the Python interpreter

By Ammon | October 5 2009

This is comes in very handy when working in the Python interpreter: >>> import os >>> os.getcwd() # Returns the current working directory; usually the directory you were in when you started the interpreter >>> os.chdir(‘/path/to/directory’) # Change the current working directory to ‘path/to/directory’. Also accepts bash commands like ‘..’ and ‘/’

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