Power Architect
In my search for a data modeling tool that is similar to MySQL Workbench, but works for PostgreSQL databases, I found out about Power Architect. What is Power Architect? Power Architect is a cross-platform, open-source visual data modeling and profiling tool with a GUI and an embeddable API designed for data architects, DBAs, analysts, and [...]
pg_restore: [tar archiver] could not find header for file in tar archive
From my old notes, I posted the way I create PostgreSQL dumps. It turns out that when you’re trying to dump a huge database (20+GB), the dump would continue and finish, but pg_restore-ing it will not work flawlessly as expected and might show an error message like this one: pg_restore: [tar archiver] could not find [...]
Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings.
Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. If you are getting this error in any [...]
Using GAE Testbed with GAEUnit: Testing that email was sent
In my quest for testing if emails are being sent by my app engine app, I came across GAE Testbed. GAE Testbed … is a set of base test cases to make it simple to test the more complicated pieces of AppEngine’s framework (such as sending E-mail messages, the datastore, Memcache, etc.) Since I’m already using [...]
Install setuptools in Fedora 12
From the Python Package Index page, setuptools allows you to Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages — easily! The PEAK Development Center, setuptools … is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils (for Python 2.3.5 and up on most platforms; 64-bit platforms require a minimum of Python 2.4) that allow you to more [...]
