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Sep 11, 2009

Installing FriendFeed’s Tornado Web Server in Snow Leopard

In the process of checking out FriendFeed’s newly open sourced Tornado Web Server, I came across a problem when trying to install its prerequisites.

Running this line, fails with an “array size” error when trying to install pycurl:

sudo easy_install setuptools pycurl==7.16.2.1 simplejson

I installed setuptools and simplejson individually to make sure they were OK:

sudo easy_install setuptools
sudo easy_install simplejson

To install pycurl, simple pass the architecture build flag as follows:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" easy_install pycurl

Note that is was on a 32bit Intel Mac. You may need to set arch to x86_64 for 64bit Intel Macs.

Sep 9, 2009

Send blog posts from Google Reader to pinboard.

I use pinboard to store links and bookmark sites that I want to read later. Mostly though, I use it for the latter.

The following shows how to add a Send To option to Google Reader, so that you can send blog posts to pinboard’s read later list without ever leaving Google Reader.

In Google Reader, go to Settings | Send To
Click Create a custom link
In the three fields shown, enter:
Name: Pinboard to read later
URL: http://pinboard.in/add?later=yes&noui=yes&jump=close&url=${url}&title=${title}
http://pinboard.in/favicon.ico
Finally, click Save

Then, as you’re reading your favourite blogs, send it to pinboard to read later via theSend To button.

Note: When you save a post to be read later, you’ll see a window momentarily popup and disappear as pinboard is doing its thing.

Jun 29, 2007