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Cleaning documents polluted by copy-paste from MSWord by Izak Burger — on Sep 16, 2011 — plone python
Postgresql's confusing authentication configuration by Izak Burger — on Aug 19, 2011 — sysadmin zope: Most distributions ship postgresql configured in "ident" mode. This is the first thing a MySQL user changes.
How to commit a transaction even when sqlalchemy thinks the session is clean by Izak Burger — on Aug 19, 2011 — zope: This happens when you call session.execute() or session.connection().execute()
How to compile python2.4 packages for newer versions of ubuntu by Izak Burger — on Aug 16, 2011 — python sysadmin zope: Since Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu linux no longer ships with python2.4. You can compile it from source, but if you are like me, you want a package.
Using XSLT to shorten some links by Izak Burger — on Aug 12, 2011: When plone uses resolveuid and relative linking, the link can often be much shorter
Why I hate MySQL by Izak Burger — on Nov 09, 2010: Certain things in MySQL really really gets to me...
A Rogue Antivirus called Internet Security 2010 by Izak Burger — on Jan 30, 2010 — sysadmin: I don't use Windows. This is a religious conviction. As a rule I don't fix other people's Windows PC's either, because once you've done that anything that goes wrong is your fault. But every once in a while a really good friend asks you to help and you take pity on him.
Varnish, Zope and Backend Checking by Izak Burger — on Dec 03, 2009: I sent this explanation about some trouble we had with varnish's backend probing to a client a while ago. The information is useful enough that it should be in a blog post.
Choose your index carefully by Izak Burger — on Dec 01, 2009: When designing a relational database schema, just adding an index on every column that might be in involved in a where-clause might not be enough. It might be downright wrong.
A decorator for doing things in a subprocess by Izak Burger — on Jul 23, 2009 — python: If you need to fork or drop privileges often, this will help.

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