Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on 13" Macbook Pro Retina (10,2)

A couple of weeks ago, I purchased the 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I spent a long time thinking about the purchase because I wanted something that would work well with Ubuntu and had at least 1080p and 8GB RAM. Since I've bought it, I gave OSX a try in ...

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Postgres and postgis

I've recently have to set up postgres again and I always have to keep looking up the commands for setting up a new user. On Ubuntu 13.04, I installed postgresql and postgis using apt-get.

sudo apt-get install postgresql python-dev libpq-dev postgresql-9.1-postgis postgresql ...
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Uploads To Django On Google App Engine And Blobstore

Problem

I absolutely love Django. There are many reasons to love the framework but sometimes it doesn't seem to work out. I recently tried to upload files using Google's App Engine and Django to Google's blobstore. The main reason why it doesn't work is because of ...

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How To Rearrange Letters In A PDF

Recently I was tasked with modifying a PDF.  Specifically, I was asked to take an existing PDF template and replace placeholder text with dynamic content.  Since I've worked with PDFs before, I knew that it might be somewhat difficult but hopefully not something I couldn't handle given my ...

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How To Configure Postfix for SES

I've recently set up my own email server.  I've read several tutorials on how to install and configure Postfix and IMAP.  One thing that I noticed is that if you send email from a server without a good reputation, there's a high probability it will end up ...

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