Vendor on bike cart

2009 May 31

A vendor and riding home from the horse festival on a bicycle cart

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Vendor on bike cart

2009 May 31

Jon Stewart, Communist

2009 March 14

". . . the family buys a . . . BIG house" read more…

At first, I thought I had been hacked:

 

 

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Show ignored files in Git

2009 January 28

How do you see or find ignored, untracked files in your Git working copy?

Files which do not show up in git status because they match a pattern/line in .gitignore or .git/info/exclude with this command:

Git 1.6:
git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard

Git 1.4, 1.5:
git ls-files --others -i \
--exclude-from="`git rev-parse --git-dir`/info/exclude" \
--exclude-per-directory=.gitignore

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Google App Engine Helper for Django r52—the one that works with the Django 0.96 that comes stock with Google App Engine—no longer works with Google App Engine 1.1.8. It gives an error like:

cd mysite; /usr/bin/python manage.py runserver
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 18, in <module>
InstallAppengineHelperForDjango()
File ".../mysite/appengine_django/__init__.py", line 440, in InstallAppengineHelperForDjango read more...

Dried fruit shell helmet

2009 January 9

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tire tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets. read more…

Simple Tests in Drupal 6

2008 December 19

There are two simpletest modules for Drupal 6.  The 2.x branch (currently at 6.x-2.5) is a backport of the unit testing framework that will be included in Drupal 7.

Unfortunately, error handling is not very good and it is possible to get inscrutable errors like this when running a test:

Running SimpleTests

An error has occurred.
Please continue to the error page
An error occurred. /batch?id=30&op=do

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