IDE for Python

October 28th, 2012

Python hasn’t got any official IDE (besides IDLE which we cannot call complete Integrated Development Environment, it’s rather Python graphical shell). The most popular environment for Python is probably PyCharm. It’s very complex in functionality but quite simple to use IDE, I use it in Intel and I can say that it’s very enjoyable. It’s biggest disadvantage is price and that excludes PyCharm from the private use on my laptop.

I must’ve find some replacement to develop applications in Python. My colleague helped me with this problem and proposed me extension for Visual Studio called Python Tools for Visual Studio. I was very surprised by a level of support for this language. It gives a full handling of autocompletion with IntelliSense and provides us debugging mechanism known from Visual Studio – the basic and most fundamental functionalities for programmers 😉 There are lots of other minor features that help coding in python with Visual Studio but I give you a free hand to discover them 🙂

I can definitely recommend you Visual Studio with the extension mentioned above as a primary IDE for Python for private use.

Force Transmission daemon to make directories accessible for Samba users

October 26th, 2012

Recently I faced a problem that directories created by transmission daemon had insufficient permissions to write in them by Samba users. I needed this feature because I wrote a bot (soon I will post it) that monitors RSS feed of private torrent tracker and downloads .torrent files with my favorite TV series. Then transmission starts downloading it. When it finishes I go there though Samba on my laptop with Windows and I need to download subtitles there. Here comes the problem with lack of permissions for user that I connect though samba.

My transmission daemon runs on user debian-transmission and on group with the same name. I connect though Samba using pi user. So I’ve added user pi to debian-transmission group:

# usermod -a -G debian-transmission pi

I needed to change also transmission settings (usually located in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json) and change line with:

"umask": 18,

to line:

"umask": 2,

Umask is usually represented in octal, but json does not support that, so we need to convert it to decimal. We can use simple bash command as quick calculator:

# echo $(( 8#022 ))
18

After modification of settings.json file save it and make command:

# service transmission-daemon reload

Now you can make files in directories created in transmission daemon though Samba 🙂

Cheap VPS in Poland

October 23rd, 2012

I would like to recommend you VPS server that I use for more than year and I’m very pleased using it. The company hosting it is ViHost.pl. From variety of option i use the one called VPS 1. Parameters are:

~ 1 Ghz CPU
1GB RAM + 1 GB SWAP
10GB HDD
1 IP address
100/100 Mbit
OpenVZ virtualization

The greatest advantage is price – 24PLN for a month. You probably won’t find better VPS with lower price on polish market. They keep their servers in Gdańsk’ datacenter (recently moved from Germany). Also the communication with helpdesk and their availability is great. Some time ago I’ve got a DDoS attack on my server, it was on on saturday about 10 PM and I got a reply in 15 minutes.

So, if you are looking for good and cheap VPS in Poland I can recommend you ViHost.pl 🙂

[CONCEPT] Script to catalog music library and discover duplicates

October 17th, 2012

I’ve recently came up with an idea of writing small python crawler that would go through my music library, retrieve information about name, all ID3 tags from my mp3s and CRC32 checksum of them and store them into MySQL database. It would allow me to detect duplicated songs on my disc and maybe more usages in the future.

I haven’t done any research about similar applications but if there are ones, I will write my own anyway 😉

If I would only find time to do this…

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