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Hosting change to hosteurope.de

Marcin Kuźmiński — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:50:00 +0000

I moved the blog to a new server. I think I’m going to move permanently from slicehost to hosteurope.de for the same price i have 1gb ram compared to 256 and 25 50 times the traffic. Also i compiled php 5.3 with php-fpm for this server, and updated mysql to newest available. I hope I’ll gain some performance with this as well. So enjoy a new theme and the server whitch i hope will be faster.

Eclipse Galileo with PyDev custom setup

Marcin Kuźmiński — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:45:02 +0000

Today is Eclipse Galileo release day. So i made my new PyDev + eclipse compilation with some customizations.

I remove all the unnecessary stuff for java IDE since we program in python we don’t need java stuff in there( and it loads faster to :D )
replaced splash screen with the one from pyDev site, and throw some nice (Python) window icons.

Here’s the main window:

Here’s what you have to do to have my setup:

Get the newest version of eclipse for java IDE (not the EE) use this direct link if you want download eclipse
extract folder eclipse to you hard drive and rename it to let’s say PyDev ;]
DON’T RUN ECLIPSE !! please
Ok here’s what you have to remove to get rid of all the java stuff
(i have nothing against java, but we’re talking python here)
from folder features remove org.eclipse.jdt_3.5.0.v20090527-2000-7r88FEeFJePyvYeA33DjZ_c1
from folder plugins remove
org.eclipse.jdt.debug_3.5.0.v20090526
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core_3.3.200.v20090528-1135.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.pluggable.core_1.0.200.v20090526-2130.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.apt.ui_3.3.200.v20090528-1135.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.compiler.apt_1.0.200.v20090528-1135.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.compiler.tool_1.0.100.v_963.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.core.manipulation_1.3.0.v20090603.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.5.0.v_963.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui_3.4.0.v20090527.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user_3.5.0.v20090603-1530.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.junit.runtime_3.4.100.v20090513-2000.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.junit4.runtime_1.1.0.v20090513-2000.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.junit_3.5.0.v20090526-2000.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.launching_3.5.0.v20090527.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.ui_3.5.0.v20090604.jar
org.eclipse.jdt_3.5.0.v200906111540.jar
Firstly i decided to remove epp.package.java but this really screws up eclipse and the icons so don’t do it
Now download this pydev icons package pydev_icons and extract it somewhere
if you don’t need the eclipse icon replacement you can skip this.
Copy and replace splash.bmp to folder plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.3.200.v200906111540
and paste rest of images to folder in plugins/org.eclipse.epp.package.java_1.2.0.20090619-0620
In case of newer eclipse builds (3.5.2) just copy everything to plugins/org.eclipse.platform_*.*(version number) and remove the gifs, so eclipse will load png
Your done !

Now run eclipse save you workspace and setup pydev as in this post:

http://www.python-blog.com/index.php/2009/06/20/python-ide-pydev-best-choice/

Enjoy lighter version of newest eclipse galileo with Pydev and some nice icons :)

UPDATE: I changed the splash screen in pydev icons to be the same size as original one.

Perfect text editor ?

Marcin Kuźmiński — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:28:37 +0000

I was looking something to replace Gedit / Scite text editor, since i work with large files (1+ mln lines) opening those files in gedit was a nightmare i took 5-8 minutes to open a file with almost 100% cpu load, and searching through the files was almost as slow as opening.

Before gedit i used scite the scintilla base text editor i was extremely fast it almost perfectly suited my needs except two things. Lack of other types of encoding than UTF-8 and in my opinion stupid options file that had to be edited manually since it doesn’t save options when you change it in scite. I looked for something to replace scite as well.

So i started looking for a scintilla based text editors, and i found one. Geany 0.17.

“Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME – Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.”

Some basic features of Geany:

Syntax highlighting
Code folding
Symbol name auto-completion
Construct completion/snippets
Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
Call tips
Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal (full list)
Symbol lists
Code navigation
Build system to compile and execute your code
Simple project management
Plugin interface (see Plugins)
Built in console
Opens file in choosen encoding
Replaces EOF for WIN UNIX MAC formats

So now opening a file is taking 20 seconds :) It’s extremely fast, and have powerful search options. This is THE text editor I’ve been looking for…
A good replacement for gedit which is slow, and scite whitch is fast but week in configuration.
Highly recommended you can download a source / win exe from this location download geany

Helo to the python-blog.com

Marcin Kuźmiński — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:06:47 +0000

Hi welcome to python blog !

We are up and running. Some technical information about our site:

Nginx 0.7.59
SliceHost 256MB slice
PHP 5.2.9 patched with php-fpm
Debian 5.0 + grsec & selinux
Python 2.6.2

Soon I’ll post the setups i made for this site as well as some useful links for custom building php with php-fm .

Regards Marcin Kuzminski site Administrator