Getting express working on Windows 7 did not work exactly as shown in the vast majority of tutorials/blogs that I found. While simple, it requires an additional step or two. Before we start, the following are the current versions of node and npm that I’m using on Windows 7: node.exe -v v0.6.10 npm -v 1.1.0-3 …
Please see my prior post on how to Setup virtualenv on Windows. Open PowerShell, then enter the following commands: cd C:\Python27 .\env_tornado\Scripts\activate.bat .\Scripts\easy_install.exe pip pip.exe install tornado -E .\env_tornado If you want to install in the global site packages, then skip pip above and use: .\Scripts\easy_install.exe tornado That’s it. Time to start writing code.
I’m going to assume you have Python 2.7 correctly installed on Windows at C:\Python27. These instructions are applicable to Windows XP and Windows 7. Open Windows PowerShell, then enter: cd C:\Python27 .\Scripts\virtualenv.exe –no-site-packages env_tornado And now to activate the new environment: .\env_tornado\Scripts\activate.bat The new virtual environment is now setup and ready for use
I have finally stopped installing Flash in my browsers by default. Up to now, I used to install Flash as soon as I upgraded my browser. However, it’s time to start the transition to the brave new world of HTML (including HTML5). Flash, it’s been great.
Maybe you already noticed, but my blog has a new address: http://AkbarAhmed.com The old links still work, but will redirect to http://AkbarAhmed.com.
Replacing Outlook with Google Email (aka Gmail for Business) requires proper setup. In my experience, the most common scenario is for a business to move its email servers to Google, but then completely drop the ball when it comes to setting up the web email client. Sure, you can simply open a browser, login and …
I recently had to connect a .NET desktop application to a web service that was built using Pyramid. My first thought was to use JSONP. However, JSONP is only useful for small amounts of data…and I had a lot of data to send/receive. Obviously, communication via an XmlHttpRequest with JSON was not an option due …
I’m a big proponent of keeping a consistent naming standard, even when crossing languages. True, capitalization and syntax may change, but the standard should remain. Importantly, I have found that naming should play to the strengths of the operating system. File Names For example, on every operating system you can sort files by name (i.e. …
I spend a lot of time switching between different languages and each has a slightly different pattern for element positioning. This often creates the need to pointlessly look up the rotation pattern for each language, which is no doubt a waste of time. To overcome this, I find that using the default pattern for a …
Converting a .p12 SSL Code Signing Certification to the .pfx format is amazingly simply. I wasted a couple of hours looking on Google without luck. So I hope this post saves someone else the time I wasted. The facts: 1.) A .p12 and .pfx are the exact same binary format, although the extension differs. 2.) …
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