More Google App Engine

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=67CDF17A3024E6F5&annotation_id=annotation_196885&feature=iv

My Firefox add-ons

Google Toolbar
Google Notebook
Alexa Sparky
X-Marks
IE-Tag
FrieFTP
FlagFox

Firebug
Web Developer
Execute JS
OJSC

how to upgrade to lastest ubuntu

sudo do-release-upgrade

jquery image popup viewer

http://fancy.klade.lv/example

jquery-popup-plugin-review

http://vision-media.ca/resources/jquery/jquery-popup-plugin-review

Install Ubuntu in ThinkPad X61

http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=240&t=524818
http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=240&p=1&t=425441

wireless problem
http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2008/03/thinkpad-x61-wireless-and-ubuntu.html

laptop wiki
http://www.linlap.com/wiki/IBM-Lenovo+Thinkpad+X61

To remove non-empty dir and all files

rm -rf *

Ubuntu SOFTWARES

acetoneISO2

How to install TTS in ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TextToSpeech

festival has the better voices than espeak.

python unicode encode & url encode

REF:http://blog.wahahajk.com/2008/10/python-unicode-encode-url-encode.html

python unicode encode & url encode

顯示unicode編碼後的byte

例如 "科"的nuicode碼是"\u79d1"

(u"abc我是中文123").encode("unicode-escape")

---->abc\u6211\u662f\u4e2d\u6587123


2.再來是如何顯示urlencode之後的編碼
import urllib

urllib.quote("a=1&b=22&c=333")

---->%3D1%26b%3D22%26c%3D333


高階應用範例:

source=u"""
"Label":["20081014","2008年10月14日"]
"""

output1=urllib.quote(source.encode("unicode-escape")) #先轉成unicode byte輸出 然後在urlencoe
output2=urllib.unquote(output1).decode("unicode-escape") #把上一步的結果urldecode回來 然後再把unicode byte轉回中文字

self.response.out.write("source= "+source)
self.response.out.write("output1= "+output1)
self.response.out.write("output2= "+output2)



輸出:

=>source= "Label":["20081014","2008年10月14日"]

=>output1= %5Cn%20%20%20%20%22Label%22%3A%5B%2220081014%22%2C%222008%5Cu5e7410%5Cu670814%5Cu65e5%22%5D%5Cn%20%20%20%20

=>output2= "Label":["20081014","2008年10月14日"]

Is there any isString, isList function in Python?

There is a function similar to that. But better than that.

from types import *

#to test it a Object is String
>>>type("string") is StringType
True
>>>type(124) is IntType
True

在ubuntu 上手動安裝 MySQLdb for Python2.6.

先要有
Python2.6
zlib-1.2.3
MySQL-python-1.2.3b1
-------------------------------------------------------------
先完成
python2.6安裝
zlib-1.2.3安裝
$sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

如果在python import MySQLdb 時出現以下訊息
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19,
in ?
ImportError: No module named _mysql

安裝
$sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

Package	Description
libmysqlclient15-dev 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4	MySQL database development files
libmysqlclient15off 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4	MySQL database client library

最後安裝:
MySQL-python-1.2.3b1
sudo python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install.

ref:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-369409.html

installing Python2.6 in ubuntu and fix dependency problems

http://www.lysium.de/blog/index.php?/archives/229-Installing-Python-2.6-on-Ubuntu-8.04.html

I thought that's all, however I get an error message like this:

Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
_hashlib           _ssl               bsddb185
bz2                gdbm               readline
sunaudiodev

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

apt-get build-dep python2.5
make

Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
bsddb185           sunaudiodev
---------------------------------------------------------
download patch

patch -p1 < python2.6-disable-old-modules.patch
make
sudo make install

Django & Sqlite3 can't open the database file problem.

Everything is right in the code. It runs normal in the django http server (manage.py runserver). But it display the following message when you using apache + mod_python in linux server.
"OperationalError: unable to open database file "

One the reasion is that the access right of the apache or mod_python have no right to wirte the database file or project folder. Try to modify the access of project folder and database file.

some ref:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-February/248859.html

using python2.6 but mod_python still paython2.5

http://anibalpacheco.com/blog/post/p-37-python26-with-mod_python-in-debian/

As you may know, there are no packages yet for Python2.6 in debian or ubuntu. If you want to install it you can do it by hand and it will work perfectly (it did for me)

Google a bit and you will find this post: http://blog.pythonaro.com/2008/10/horrible-hack-to-get-python-26-on.html

You can follow the steps in the post without problem, then remember to update your supported and default versions under /usr/share/pyhton/debian_defaults

Also you can link modules available in 2.5 to be used by 2.6, for example Ipython, it works perfectly. Do symlinks from python2.6/site_packages/ pointing python2.5/site_packages. Although this is not the correct way, the correct way should be reinstall those modules under your new configuration.

But what about mod_python? it still remains to Python2.5 right? YES

Well, you have to do the same, download it from modpython.org and make and make install, be sure to install apache2-dev it will provide you with a tool needed in the compilation time.

All should work, also django is working perfectly in my new Python & mod_python 2.6 conf. under debian.

cheers!

http://blog.pythonaro.com/2008/10/horrible-hack-to-get-python-26-on.html

I wanted to try out the newly-released 2.6 version of our beloved Python, but unfortunately Debian didn't have a package for it yet (and it still doesn't). I wasn't too afraid of screwing up my laptop, as it's probably going to be formatted very soon anyway, and I didn't want to mess around with deb build scripts, so this is what I've done:

1. got the official source distribution, untarred and cd in the resulting dir Python2.6
2. got some additional packages: apt-get install tk8.4-dev libgdbm-dev libdb-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libncurses5-dev (and possibly a few others)
3. ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-ipv6
4. make
5. checkinstall -D --pkgname=python2.6 --pkgversion=2.6 --maintainer=g.lacava@gmail.com --inspect --backup=yes --install=no make altinstall
   This command allowed me to review the package contents and remove what I didn't need, which is basically everything outside the "python2.6" directories and which might already exist on my system (so I didn't want to overwrite it).
   I took out the lines /usr/bin/pydoc, /usr/bin/idle and /usr/share/man/man1/python.1
   UPDATE: when checkinstall asks if you want to create a default set of docs, say "yes", or you might get an error about ranlib further down (see comments).
6. installed the produced .deb package
7. copied back pydoc and idle (from the build directory) and /usr/share/man/man1/python.1 (from the Misc directory), all with "2.6" appended. I then set up alternatives with update-alternatives --install symlink name alternative priority (mainly in order to "redebianize" my impure karma); UPDATE: well, using alternatives (a 100% Debian solution which works perfectly well for loads of other multi-version script engines) will break your system, because some developers absolutely must reinvent the wheel every 5 minutes and then proudly announce that bugs won't be fixed. The stupidity of it all is staggering.

First impressions: 2.6 seems fast as hell. I don't know if this is due to the custom compilation though, rather than improvements in the runtime.

Change the default python version in ubuntu

http://tareqalam.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/change-the-default-python-version-in-ubuntu/

check python version

ls -l $(which python)

ubuntu 自己安裝後找不到 sqlite3 module的問題.

$ python manage.py runserver 8080
Validating models...
Unhandled exception in thread started by
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 48, in inner_run
self.validate(display_num_errors=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 246, in validate
num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/validation.py", line 22, in get_validation_errors
from django.db import models, connection
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.6.egg/django/db/__init__.py", line 16, in
backend = __import__('%s%s.base' % (_import_path, settings.DATABASE_ENGINE), {}, {}, [''])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.6.egg/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 27, in
raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Error loading %s module: %s" % (module, exc)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading sqlite3 module: No module named _sqlite3

解決方法:
重新手動安裝 sqlite3 和 python 2.6.1
先安裝sqlite3
# wget http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-3.6.6.2.tar.gz
# tar xzvf sqlite-3.6.6.2.tar.gz
# cd sqlite-3.6.6.2
# ./configure
# make
# make install
再安裝 python 2.6.1
# wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.1/Python-2.6.1.tgz
# tar xvf Python-2.6.1.tgz
# cd Python-2.6.1
# ./configure
# make
# make install

測試:

$ python manage.py runserver 8080
Validating models...
0 errors found

Django version 1.0.2 final, using settings 'mysite.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8080/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

完成.

Web::Scraper in Python

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/akkt/20070911/1189521960
http://www.packtpub.com/article/web-scraping-with-python
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286269/
http://www.goldb.org/geo_maps/

#!/usr/bin/env python2.5
from scraper import scraper, process
import codecs, sys
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)

s = scraper(
process('span.title > a:first-child', title='TEXT', url='@href'),
process('span.furigana', furigana='TEXT'),
process('ul.list-circle > li:first-child > a', category='TEXT'),
)

result = s.scrape('http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/%BA%B0%CC%EE%A4%A2%A4%B5%C8%FE')
print ''.join(result['category'])
print ''.join(result['furigana'])
print ''.join(result['title'])
print ''.join(result['url'])

$ ./keyword.py
アイドル
こんのあさみ
紺野あさ美
/keyword/%ba%b0%cc%ee%a4%a2%a4%b5%c8%fe

Web::ScraperよりFlickrからサムネイルURLをとってくる例。

#!/usr/bin/env python2.5
from scraper import scraper, process
import codecs, sys
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)

s = scraper(
process('a.image_link img', thumbs="@src"),
)

result = s.scrape('http://www.flickr.com/photos/bulknews/sets/72157601700510359/')

print "\n".join(result['thumbs'])

scrape.py自体はこんな感じ

#!/usr/bin/env python2.5
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from urllib import urlopen
from lxml import etree

def scraper(*funcs):
class Scraper(object):
    def __init__(self, funcs):
        self.funcs = funcs
    
    def scrape(self, url):
        from StringIO import StringIO
        stash = {}
        res = urlopen(url)
        html = res.read().decode(res.headers.getparam('charset') or 'latin-1')
        tree = etree.parse(StringIO(html), etree.HTMLParser())
        for f in self.funcs:
            xpath, attr = f()
            for key, val in attr.iteritems():
                if val.startswith('@'):
                    stash[key] = [e.attrib[val[1:]] for e in tree.xpath(xpath)]
                elif val.upper() == "TEXT":
                    stash[key] = [e.text for e in tree.xpath(xpath)]
                else:
                    print "Got an unknown thingy: ", what
        return stash

return Scraper(funcs)


def create_process(func):
def do(selector, **kwargs):
    def wrap():
        return func(selector, kwargs)
    return wrap
return do


@create_process
def process(selector, kwargs):
from lxml.cssselect import  CSSSelector
xpath = selector if selector.startswith('/') else CSSSelector(selector).path
return xpath, kwargs

Django Komodo Setting.

http://community.activestate.com/tags/komodo-project-template-d

CSS Rounded Coners

ref: http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000044.php

gen only CSS
http://www.spiffycorners.com/

gen by Image + CSS
http://www.neuroticweb.com/recursos/css-rounded-box/

• CSS only methods
• JavaScript required methods

Click on a column heading to sort the table by that column.

CSS Only Methods

Name	# of Images	Fixed / Liquid	Site / Comments
Even More Rounded Corners With CSS	1	Liquid	HedgerWow
Even More Rounded Corners With CSS	1	Liquid	Schillmania.com
CSS Mojo: Adding Visual Polish To Your Pages	1	Liquid	Leslie Sommer
CSS Round Corners	0	Fixed / Liquid	Gran Yosler. Limited flexibility.
Single Image Fluid/Fixed Rounded Bordered Corners walkthrough	1	Fixed / Liquid	CASS-Hacks
ORB | Fluid CSS One Image Round Borders	1	Liquid	Daniel Tillett
Rounded Corners for Fixed width	2	Fixed	Daniel Bulli
Curved boxes in CSS	2	Fixed	Includes CSS3 example
Chunky Borders and corners with no images	0	Fixed / Liquid	Uses no images
Lean and Clean CSS boxes	2	Fixed	TJKDesign
PNG transparency rounded corners using images	7	Liquid	Uses PNG images
CSS Liquid Round Corners	6	Fixed / Liquid	Search-This
RoundedCornr	4	Fixed / Liquid	Online generator
More Rounded Corners with CSS	6	Liquid	Schillmania
Spanky Corners	4	Liquid	SitePoint. Online generator
Mountaintop Corners	2	Fixed	A List Apart. Uses definition list
Custom Corners & Borders: Part I	5	Liquid	A List Apart. For solid backgrounds
Custom Corners & Borders: Part II	5	Liquid	A List Apart. For gradient backgrounds
Simple Rounded Corner CSS Boxes	1	Fixed	Modx CMS. Replaces Thrash Box
Spiffy Box	1	Fixed	SpiffyBox. Online generator based on Thrash Box
Graphik Junkie	3	Fixed	Graphik Junkie
Single Image Rounded Corners	1	Fixed / Liquid	Phoenity
Custom Corners	3	Fixed	Interface-7
Bullet Proof Rounded Corners	4	Liquid	Albin.Net. Images added via HTML not CSS
Rounded Corners in CSS	4	Fixed	Adam Kalsey
CSS teaser box	1	Fixed	456 Berea Street
CSS teaser box revisited	2	Liquid	456 Berea Street
News list	1 or 2	Fixed	456 Berea Street
CSS Rounded Box Generator	5	Fixed	Neurotic Web. Online generator
Round Corners	3 or 6	Fixed or Liquid	Sova v siti. Liquid box uses 8 divs
Rounded corners using CSS	4	Liquid	Maurice Svay
Simple Box	8	Fixed / Liquid	Sperling Corporation
Custom Bordered Boxes	1 or 2	Fixed / Liquid	Steve Clay. Includes Fireworks source file
Liquid box with rounded corners	4	Liquid	Guy Fisher
Borders with curves	5	Fixed	Webcredible
Boxes with curves	4	Fixed	Webcredible
Rounded block or design with CSS & XHTML	3	Fixed	Alsacreations. Uses definition list for markup
Resizable box with freely stylable corners & surface	4	Liquid	Andreas Kalt
Rounded corners in CSS	4	Liquid	Arve Bersvendsen. Does not work in IE
Broader Border Corners	4	Liquid	24 Ways
Liquid round corners	4	Liquid	Tiscali
CSS: Smart Corners	4	Liquid	Mike Cherim
Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes with CSS	0	Fixed	WebReference
Snazzy Borders	0	Fixed / Liquid	CSS Play
Spiffy Corners	0	Fixed / Liquid	Spiffy Corners. Online generator

Methods Requiring JavaScript

Name	# of Images	Fixed / Liquid	Site / Comments
Corner.js	0	Fixed	Multiple effects including borders.
Anti-aliased Rounded corners with JQuery	0	Fixed / Liquid	Blue anvil.JQuery version of Curvy Corners.
ShadedBorder	0	Fixed / Liquid	Drop shadows & other effects.
Transcorners	0	Fixed	Inviz.ru
Sweet Rounded Corners	1	Liquid	Allcrunchy.com. Online generator
DomCorners	1, 2, 5	Liquid	Web Graphics. # of images based on layout
Transparent Custom Corners and Borders	2	Fixed	456 Berea Street
Customising custom corners and borders	2	Liquid	456 Berea Street
curvyCorners	0	Fixed / Liquid	Curvy Corners. Support forum; mailing list
Nifty Corners Cube	0	Fixed / Liquid	HTML.it. 13 examples
Rico – Javascript Rounded Corners	0	Fixed	Rico
Rounded Corners With CSS and JavaScript	0	Fixed	Dev Articles
Rounded Corners with CSS and JavaScript	4	Fixed	SitePoint
MochiKit Rounded Corners	0	Liquid	Mochikit
Octopus Engine	8	Liquid	Dragon Labs. Source package includes PSDs
Editsite Rounded Corners	0	Fixed	Editsite.net
Anti-aliased Nifty Corners	0	Liquid	Steven Wittens
Rounded Corners without Images	0	Liquid	Seky

Javascript

Assign & execute.
function f(){
alert("");
}

p = f() // <-- execuate. it will execute now!

p = f // <-- assign. it will executed when p() have been call.

vsFTPd permission problem

vsFTPd permission help
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=389908

---

You have it correct.

If a directory has perms g+s, and is group-owned webadmin, all new files/directories will be group-owned webadmin. Only root can chown/chgrp to another user/group, so your base web directory must be setup before you start your FTP transfers.

New files and directories will be created based upon the following:

1) the file_open_mode configured in vsftpd.conf
2) the local_umask specified configured in vsftpd.conf
3) the users current umask when running ftp

Both 2 and 3 are combined. If the local_mask is 007, but the user running ftp has a umask of 022, then the combined umask will be 027.

A java TCP Monitor

tcpmon-Main Window: Used to setup traffic monitoring for TCP connections

tcpmon-Monitor Panel: Used to monitor traffic on a TCP connection

Test Google API

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