The new brew of Foundation 4 is out, focusing on mobile first. Worth trying.

dropzone.js is an open source library that provides drag’n’drop file uploads with image previews

Nowadays, virtualenv uses --no-site-packages by default. This means that the created virtualenv will not access global site-packages modules ie. /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/.

To enable global site-packages again, just remove this file::

your_env/lib/python2.7/no-global-site-packages.txt

Why would you do that ?

Some modules are complicated to install (xpyb) or take too much time to compile (pyqt). Using the distro packages can be pretty useful !

Allison from hacker school published an interesting article about virtualenv for beginners.

Please upgrade.

TL;DR: Intel implements UDEREF equivalent 6 years after PaX, PaX will make use of it on amd64 for improved performance.

Read article ….

Linux 3.8 was released !

SourceTree is a free client for Mercurial and Git. The windows release has been announced.

Vim is a great text and code editor for command line interface. OpenVim presents an interactive tutorial which seems nice for new beginners.

For those using jedi-vim are indirectly using rope refactoring library.

If you are also using a home-level virtualenv ie. in ~/env/ then your vim instance might take crazy long time.

First things first, rope creates a .ropeproject directory where it thinks the project root is. And it will scan every file in every sub directory. A quick and dirty solution is to create empty .ropeproject folders lower in the $HOME filesystem. Rope will automatically use this folder if it finds no other .ropeproject folder at a lower level.