If you are like me and want to install git-core core from source instead of one to the many binary packages out or you just have a distro that does have a binary for it. Here is what you will need to get it installed. POSIX-compliant shell GCC – gnu c compiler GNU Interactive Tools…
Here is what happens when I recovery from surgery.
After being told that I would need to take five days to recovery from a recent surgery and being informed that they would prefer me not to work on any of the system at work well under the influence of pain killers, I started looking for thing to kill time. Well trying to find something…
Using CURL to manage Tomcat
The other day I and a few of my colleges were talking about a easy way to deploy and undeploy war files from the command line like you could through the Tomcat Web Application Manager portal and being on a python kick, I started writing it in python. After an hour or two I realized that…
Simple HTTP Server with Python
Ever needed a quick web server to share something with a Windows user from you Linux box. Python has really easy to use embedded HTTP Server. Just try the following.shell> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9001 And point you web browser at http://localhost:9001 and see what happens. — Cheers
Slacking over the Holidays
So December was an interesting month for me, with a few changes in my personal career and the holidays. I take a week off. Which of course lead me spending two weeks catching up on work and to top it off my boss or someone above him decided that we need to take look at…
Connecting PHP to An Oracle Instance on RedHat or CentOS 5
Here lately it seems that everyone wants to connect to Oracle, but I have to admit this was the first time someone asked me to get PHP to talk to Oracle. It was a lot less painful then I thought it would be, so here is what I did. A long with the standard PHP…
Quick Start To Using MongoDB with Python on Linux
With it’s rapid growth in popularity MongoDB is quickly becoming one of the top NoSQL Databases out there and with Python being one of the top ten programming languages according to Tiobe Software’s Programming Community Index. I’ve decided to write a quick how-to to show you just how easy it is to get started with…
Connecting Python to Oracle.
In the current world of heterogeneous networks it seems that you need to be able to connect to ever type of database system out there. In a recent project, I was asked, to take an existing MySQL and Python system and get it to connect to an existing Oracle Data Warehouse system. To be honest,…
Why You Should Looking at Python.
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python has also been one of the top 10 programming languages, since May of 2004 according toTiobe Software’s Programming Community Index. Python is being used by some big named companies such as Google, Yahoo,…
Calculating The Percentage of Max Connections in with MySQL 5.1.9 and higher
For longest time it had bugged me that there wasn’t an easy way to put “SHOW STATUS”, “SHOW VARIABLES”, or “SHOW PROCESSLIST” variables into queries, so I could easily calculate stuff like max connections percentage. Then MySQL 5.1.9 came out and you could final start to do SELECT statements on information_schema.GLOBAL_STATUS, information_schema.SESSION_STATUS, information_schema.GLOBAL_VARIABLES, information_schema.SESSION_VARIABLES and…