Test Users – Facebook Developers

A test user is a user account associated with an app created for the purpose of testing the functionality of that application. You can use test users for manual or automated testing. We allow you to access the test account via a login_url which allows you to directly login to the account. The login_url expires […]

jsPerf: JavaScript performance playground

jsPerf — JavaScript performance playground What is jsPerf? jsPerf aims to provide an easy way to create and share test cases, comparing the performance of different JavaScript snippets by running benchmarks. For more information, see the FAQ. via jsperf.com Great place to do some JS tests and learn from others.

ReaditLaterList + Bit.ly + Tweeter

Thanks to the great APIs from each of three different services (Readitlaterlist, bitly and tweeter) I was able to create a mashup that allows me to view the ReaditLaterList items on the browser. There are times when I want to share the links with others in tweeter but I need to open a new browser […]

Chmod codes explained

Codes below for quick reference: All seven permissions are listed below, with their numeric values on the left. 1. –x 2. -w- 3. -wx 4. r– 5. r-x 6. rw- 7. rwx Common combinations in use on web servers are as follows: 644 = rw-r–r– Usual permissions for reading an HTML web page or Read-only […]

Running Django in a Rackspace cloud

Problem Run Django in a Rackspace server and be able to restart the services if necesary. Solution It is rather easy to have a copy of Django running on the cloud if you follow the steps to the letter in the tutorial here. One of the problems that I personally encountered was to kill the […]

Error SVN Checksum missmatch while updating

Error svn: Checksum mismatch while updating ‘thenameofyourfile.ext’; expected: ‘e0585e8a5e638c6d5490ab2feb9b4267’, actual: ‘d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e’ Solution open the “entries” file that lives inside the “.svn” folder in a text editor. I use TextMate Do a “find” and look for the expected checksum. In the example above is “e0585e8a5e638c6d5490ab2feb9b4267” Replace with the actual checksum. In the example above is “d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e” […]