Rails development on Windows Vista is too slow!

Have you ever said that before? I'm sure you have. ANyway check this out:

Speed up slow Rails development in vista

Labels: rails, windows, windows vista

Copy more than one thing to the clipboard

Wouldn't it be cool if you could just copy more than one thing to the clipboard?

So for example if I need to copy two things on a website and paste it into two separate fields on another website, I would be able to copy both of those things and then paste each of those into their own fields on the other site.

Unfortunately, there's no way to do it, barring software that does way more than that and is unwieldy and otherwise not worthwhile.

I found this discussion, which didn't produce any good leads.

If anyone else knows how it might be done, please leave a comment.

Labels: windows, windows vista

How to install mod_python on XAMPP

Complete tutorial for getting mod_python set up on XAMPP so you can work on Python and Django projects on your localhost computer.

Installing Python (mod_python) on XAMPP (on Windows)

XAMPP + Python + Django

Labels: django, python, windows

Insert writable disc! Error when burning CD on Windows Vista

This problem might apply to other versions of Windows besides Vista but I tried to burn a playlist of songs from Windows Media Player, and it kept spitting the CD out and saying "insert a writable disc" in the playlist panel and showing a similar error as a pop up message.

I thought it might have to do with Windows or my laptop computer (a Dell XPS M1330), but the solution is pretty simple: use a different disc!

It just didn't like the disc I was putting in, maybe it was too cheap, too old, who knows. But once I put in a new disc I got from Staples, a 4.7GB DVD-R disc it didn't complain.

Labels: windows, windows vista

memcached with django on windows

Installing Memcached for Django Application on Windows XP

Installing Memcache On Windows For PHP

Running memcached on Windows

memcached for Windows - v.1.2.4

memcached on jellycan - 1.2.6

memecache2 for win 32 - old version

Labels: caching, django, windows

How to Install and Run Django on Windows (Vista)

Download the Django file from the website.

It's tarred and gunzipped, so use 7-zip to extract it.

Put the extracted directory somewhere.

In your console, cd to the directory (Django-0.96.1 or whatever).

Run this command in the console:
python setup.py install

Start python by typing 'python' at the command line.

Then type:
>>> import django
>>> django.VERSION
(0, 96.099999999999994, None)

Add to your path (see my post about setting path in Vista):
c:\Django-0.96.1\django\bin

You may need to restart console if the path doesn't update (if you changed it via windows see my blog post.)

Then do:
C:\django_projects>django-admin.py startproject mysite

that creates the directory with 4 python files

mysite/
__init__.py
manage.py
settings.py
urls.py


Then start the server that it comes with:

C:\django_projects\mysite>python manage.py runserver
Validating models...
0 errors found.

Django version 0.96.1, using settings 'mysite.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.


Now go to:
http://localhost:8000/

Now you have Django on Windows!

Labels: django, python, windows

How to set the MS-DOS path in Microsoft Vista

I upgraded to Vista and had to re-install all my web development software, including Vim. I use a lot of Vim plugins, one of them being Taglist. So I started Vim on the new machine, but the Taglist plugin wouldn't load, because the ctags path could not be found!

Largely for my own reference, here's how to set the path variable in Windows (Vista), follow these steps:

Control Panel > System and Maintenance > System >
Advanced System Settings > Advanced (tab) >
Environment Variables (button) >

Scroll down until you see path and click the edit button.

Labels: dos, path, vista, windows