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04.14.07

Flash USB devices in Cygwin Cygwin, Windows (4)

Using raw devices in Cygwin has changed over the years and the current documentation doesn’t make it that clear what is required to use them correctly. A google search turns up some of the older methods of accessing raw devices mixed in with the new (POSIX) method which i describe below in the hope it […]
04.05.07

PuTTYcyg - a replacement terminal emulator for Windows Development (0)

If you use Cygwin on Windows for any purpose at all you might want to consider trying out PuTTYcyg which replaces both a standard PuTTY installation (it’s actually built on top of PuTTY) and the absolutely rubbish windows cmd.exe, which i’ve lived with for far far to long.
I’ve just found it and it works like […]
04.01.07

SQLObject SQLite on Windows/Win32 Development (0)

I often develop using a windows platform and deploy on unix/linux. One of the great things about Python is it’s platform flexibility.
I’m learning Pylons which is an MVC framework at the moment and running through the blog tutorial which is a great starting point. Im developing using an Sqlite database (and probably deploying on a […]

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