Hynek Schlawack

As some of my older rage-filled articles indicated, we’re still running some services on SAP’s SQL Anywhere.

In web development, we have an unfortunate double meaning for the word models.

Without orientation, deployments of Python applications can be tiresome and even painful.

Even the best of us hate logging in Python sometimes.

There are many wordy articles on configuring your web server’s TLS ciphers.

This one falls under: “I knew there has to be an easy way!”

When I read about PyLadies for the first time, my thoughts were a common knee-jerk: “separation is bad, dividing the community, …”.

Like many OSS fans, I always wanted to be an active part of the movement.

Speed, reproducibility, easy rollbacks, and predictability is what we strive for when deploying our diverse Python applications.

Deploying web applications is hard.

In our newest installation of “why you should not use Sybase SQL Anywhere” I’d like to report the latest problem I had to solve: for some reason, I couldn’t connect using sqlanydb from Celery tasks.

So you came to the same conclusion as I: Google is actually evil indeed.

I never did a retrospective but 2011 deserves one.

There is this common notion, that asynchronous IO is hard and that writing a custom connection pool is even harder.

After switching to the Mac, I had one big itch that spoiled all the bliss: MacVim sometimes simply refused to cooperate with the system clipboard.

No, this isn’t going to be a smug post about nutrition.

So you want quick offline access to your mails using mutt to fully exploit your SSD and yet still have everything nicely working in Google’s web interface?

There’s one thing hackers are opinionated about as about the right editor: The right color scheme.

Mostly a note to myself as I forget it regularly.

Using the official sqlanydb driver for Python together with Twisted’s adbapi produces not-so-occasional crashes as of today (sqlanydb 1.0.2, Twisted 11.0.0).

I’d thought something like this is a FAQ but the database docs on postgres don’t write a bit about forcing Django to connect using SSL to the database server.

Be careful to not overeat.

It took me a while to figure it out, so I decided to share.

After a few months of use my Kindle started to freeze randomly.

The perception of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is ambivalent.

Sounds harder than it is – especially when reading the official docs.

While developing a network sniffer I had to find a way to write pcap logs.