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- May 03, 12
Because Python isn’t strongly typed, sometimes PyDev doesn’t know what type a variable is – and therefore it cannot give you accurate code completions. Here’s how to make that better.
In simpler situations, PyDev works very well. For example:
emp = Employee()
Typing ‘emp.’ will get you a good autocomplete.
Now, let’s say you have something like this:
emp = something.find_employee("dave")
Then ‘emp.’ won’t get you anything – PyDev doesn’t necessarily know what type is being returned.
If you use python’s assert method:
emp = something.find_employee("dave") assert isinstance(emp, Employee)
PyDev now knows what type the variable is, and you’ll get more effective code completions.
When running in production, you can pass the “-O” flag to the interpreter, and it will ignore the assert statements.
- Nov 18, 11
I needed to return all the members of an object as an XML document in Python. I used the ElementTree library to do this.
The class in question is pretty basic: It has a constructor, member variables, getters and setters for the member variables, and now this new function.
Every Python class has a built-in __dict__ member, which is a dictionary ({}) of key/value pairs for all of the member variables, so I use that to get all of the variables to add to the ElementTree.
This function returns an xml.etree.ElementTree.Element object, which can be turned into a string if needed by using ElementTree’s tostring() method.
def getXML(self): """ Returns an XML representation of the object """ topElem = Element("item") for key in self.__dict__.keys(): elem = SubElement(topElem, key) elem.text = str(self.__dict__[key]) return topElem
- Nov 16, 11
Often times, in your Squid proxy, you may have a redirector configured – such as SquidGuard:
redirect_program /usr/local/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/local/etc/squid/squidGuard.conf
I ran into a problem tonight with my Roku box where SquidGuard was seeing Roku’s NetFlix access as a security threat. So, to make Squid bypass the redirector, add an ACL and a redirector-access rule:
acl netflix dstdomain .netflix.com redirector_access deny netflix
There you have it – any requests to *.netflix.com will skip the redirector.
- Nov 06, 11
By default, Squid sends HTTP headers on every request that can give away information about your internal network. Here’s an example of these headers:
HTTP_VIA:1.1 proxyserver.local (squid/3.1.16) HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:192.168.0.123
That’s three pieces of information you may not want to give away: The host name of your proxy server, the version of Squid it’s running, and the IP address of the system that’s making the request via the proxy.
Fortunately, it’s simple (and does not apparently violate any standards) to make these headers more anonymous – just use these configuration directives in your squid.conf:
# Be more anonymous forwarded_for off visible_hostname proxy.local httpd_suppress_version_string on
That will change the headers to look more like this:
HTTP_VIA:1.1 proxy.local (squid) HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:unknown
- Oct 28, 11
- Sep 07, 11
If you have a switch, access point or other piece of network hardware that supports 802.1q VLAN tagging, and you’d like to your FreeBSD system to recognize them, it’s a pretty straight-forward configuration. I’ll use examples from my network to illustrate. My goal in this case, which I may write about in a separate post, was to create two segmented wifi networks – one for my main network and one for guests to connect to. I wanted the guest network to have access to the internet, but not to any of my other systems on the network.
Read the rest of Configure VLANs on FreeBSD (341 words) - Mar 04, 10
Most of us don’t have native IPv6 Internet connections at home. Fortunately, it’s easy (and free) to get connected to the IPv6 Internet. Here’s how to get your FreeBSD box connected.
Read the rest of FreeBSD – IPv6 Tunnel and Gateway Configuration (523 words) - Mar 01, 10
I spent some time thinking about backup strategy, and I decided for my purposes, I’d like to handle the staging process (getting all the files put together), and I’d like the backup solution itself to simply upload the files – but since I want to do nightly backups, I’d like the backup solution to have incremental capabilities.
I narrowed it down to two possible solutions – Tarsnap and Duplicity. Both support incremental backups, both are command-line capable. I decided to use Duplicity because it uploads directly to whichever back-end service you use – be it Amazon S3 or an SFTP server . Tarsnap uses S3, but that’s your only option, and they do some processing for you, and because of that, it costs more.
Now, on to the details.
Read the rest of FreeBSD Backup Using dump and duplicity (1,786 words) - Feb 28, 10
The FreeBSD console is colorless by default – but most terminals and SSH clients these days support color. The benefits of colorizing your console should be pretty obvious. It makes your life a little easier – you don’t have to do as much mental processing.
Read the rest of FreeBSD – Colorize Your Console (154 words) - Jul 04, 09
The Duke URLGrabber package for Python makes it incredibly easy to retrieve files from remote servers, and it abstracts urllib2 for you in a protocol-independent way, so you can focus on your application instead of spending time working with Python’s built-in urllib2.
On Windows and Mac OSX, by default, urllib2 (and therefore URLGrabber) will use the built-in proxy settings of the system – but sometimes you don’t want that. For example, let’s say you’re using a Windows box that’s on a domain, and proxy settings have been pushed down by group policy. You want to access local network resources without needing to route through the proxy or authenticate to it.
With urllib2, you would simply add code like the following:
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
Note the empty dictionary “{}” to specify no proxies. Doing the same for URLGrabber was suggested on a mailing list post – and it apparently worked for the poster. However, I wasn’t able to get it to work, so I came up with another way. I just specified a dummy proxy for a dummy protocol, as follows:
kwargs["proxies"] = { 'nothing': 'http://nothing' }
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- Associate Software Engineer at MICROS-Retail (Datavantage Corporation)Computer Software | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area, USSummaryIn my years at MICROS-Retail (formerly Datavantage), I have worn a few hats. I started as a Technical Support Representative I, moved on to become a Technical Support Representative II, and Corporate Systems Engineer. I am now a Software Engineer on our Research and Development team.
I am responsible for one of our products which is a behind-the-scenes environment for our market-leading point-of-sale product, Store21. I also work with the environment for our newer Java-based POS product, Xstore.
Currently, I am developing and Java and GWT. I am also responsible for supporting and continuing development on applications written in Python and Borland Delphi.
I seek positions where I can utilize these skills and increase my skill level and knowledge base.Specialties: Microsoft Windows, Linux, BSD, UNIX shell scripting, IBM Object REXX, MS SQL Server, RemoteWare/Xcellenet/CONNECT:Remote (2.51 - 4.3), Afaria, OS/2 Warp, Some Borland Delphi and Python. Java, GWT.Experience- Nov 2007 - PresentAssociate Software Engineer / Micros Retail Systems• Led the development and maintenance of our “Environment” applications which are responsible for security and maintenance of point of sale systems in the field, and are installed on all of our hundreds of thousands of in-store systems. • Worked with our operations department on support issues with the Environment applications. • Rewrote the web configuration and status interface for Xpay, our payment gateway solution, in GWT. • Investigated and made recommendations on mobile device management solutions for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad platform, to help support our customers’ integration of our iOS solution. • Converted our continuous-integration server from CruiseControl to Hudson. • Updated and managed the Ant build processes for several of our applications. • Responsible for the installation processes of all current applications, including our Xstore POS system, Relate CRM application, and Xpay payment gateway solution. • Managed my team’s VMware ESXi servers.
- Jun 2005 - Nov 2007Corporate Systems Engineer / MICROS-Retail (Datavantage Corporation)• Develop solutions to integrate the point of sale products (Store21, Xstore and TradeWind) with customer host systems (merchandise management) and our own corporate office products such as loss prevention and reporting (XBR Store Analytics). • Develop, support and maintain polling solutions using RemoteWare and Afaria to support data movement between retail stores and corporate offices. • Developed scripting solutions using REXX and VBScript to enhance the capabilities of said polling solutions. • Develop, support and maintain ETL environments for translation of data between point of sale and host merchandise management systems using UNIX shell scripting and Delphi. • Provide on-site consulting and training for customers using our corporate systems products. • Support and maintain our in-house credit card settlement product. • Develop and maintain Windows-based WhatsUp network monitoring system, and used VBScript to enhance monitoring process.
- Oct 2004 - Jun 2005Operations Analyst / OEConnection• Responsible for monitoring and day-to-day operations of business systems. • Created web-based task management system in PHP. • Worked with Linux and Nagios for automated network monitoring.
- Jun 2003 - Oct 2004Technical Support Specialist II / MICROS-Retail (Datavantage Corporation)Upper-level support for Technical Support Specialist I. Issues that could not be resolved by Level 1 support were escalated to Level 2 support. Supported store associates with advanced hardware and software problems over the phone and interactively via software like pcAnywhere, VNC, Remote Administrator, Webex, et. al.
- Feb 2002 - Jun 2003Technical Support Specialist I / MICROS-Retail (Datavantage Corporation)First line of support for incoming help desk calls. Phone-based troubleshooting of hardware and software issues with store associates in the field.
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2000 - 2002University of Wisconsin-Madison
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