Category Archives: code

PXE / Net booting Open Solaris 200805 release.

Introduction After the disk in my laptop recently died I decided that it would be a good time to try and install the latest version of Open Solaris onto my laptop. Unfortunately the only option I have for installing new … Continue reading

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Referential Integrity and Django.

Since late 2007 I’ve been working on a project involving Django, initially we started developing the software using 0.96 stable release, however recently made the decision to move to the SVN release. One of the main reasons behind this was … Continue reading

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High cpu usage from eog / gnome-panel ? blame gtk’s recent-manager.

After re-organising a large number of photos using eog I started to notice spikes of cpu usage while moving from image to image. At first this was just inconvenient but as time went on (and as more photos were viewed) … Continue reading

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Which Jython?

After reading about Sun hiring some Jython developers I decided to install it myself under Debian testing to see what all the fuss is about. As a big Python fan a world without the GIL (Gloabl Interpreter Lock) of CPython … Continue reading

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Accessing Persistent Objects with Apache ws-xmlrpc 3.0 – A Documented Example

Introduction A common use case for an xml-rpc based application server would be one which involves the use of one or more persistent objects. Without any kind of persistence a server handling xml-rpc requests will either be ineffective or inefficient. … Continue reading

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