Archive for September, 2005

PostgreSQL and Python on OSX

Friday, September 30th, 2005

Just a note to remind me how to set this up.

Download and install postgreSQL from Marc Liyanage
Download and install egenix-mx-base (for mxDateTime)
Download the egenix_mx_base src (psycopg need the headers to compile)
download psycopg
CD into the psycopg directory, run ./configure with the following parameters:

./configure
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You know your software company has a problem when…

Monday, September 26th, 2005

your most faithfull user jump ships one month after spending 1600 Euros on your latest and greatest.
My wife has been a Quark users for 15 years. A month ago she upgraded to Q6. That didn’t span out. Quark has been terrible unstable and quirky in all aspects. Then she had this terrible sperience (as […]

Pronto Montalbano

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Yesterday, Nina and I saw on tv the last episode of ‘Commissario Montalbano’. We have avidly follow the charismatic sicilian inspector for the last couple of month.
Sadly it’s over now =(. To take the top of my abstinence I have allready ordered a couple of books from Andrea Camilleri.

Verbalizing

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

I have been tinkering with a product idea for a couple of years.
Two month ago I decided to go serious about it.
I plan to blog about my journey from idea to (hopefully) finish product.
Writting will steal development time, but verbalizing is the first step for making things happen =).