In case you ever need to test a site on Internet Explorer 6 on Mac you should check this out: http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

This bit me majorly yesterday. Nobody tells Bash when the current folder is renamed.

Consider this in a first shell:

mkdir foo
cd foo

Now fire up a second shell and do this:

mv foo foo.old
mkdir foo
cd foo
touch hellothere.txt

Try this in your first shell ...

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Yesterday I wanted to install MAME on my MacBook to always have some classy arcade action with me on the go. So my first stop is MAME OS X of course. It's got all the MAME fun in a nice clean package, all ready for some delicious Mac gaming ...

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Now this is what you do all the time to strings in Python:

something = 'text'
print 'some %s' % something

But what if you don't know what you want to insert into a string during programming time? Well then you need the Python string module. It contains all kinds of ...

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Now here I got another pearl. It bugged me to no end that one cannot have a ModelForm and override only certain attributes of a certain field without having to overwrite the whole field with all of its default attributes. Well, seems that is actually possible, like so:

class SomeForm ...

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