install oracle instance client on ubuntu 11.10 x64

• download *.rpm from oracle
• sudo alien to install rpms
• vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient11.2-basic.conf 
• /lib
• /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib
• sudo ldconfig

mysql testdb

mysql> create database testdb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec)

mysql> create user 'testuser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)

mysql> use testdb;
Database changed
mysql> grant all on testdb.* to 'testdb'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql>flush privileges

mysql>select user, host from mysql.user;

DNS wildcard and DHCP with BIND vs dnsmasq

set up DNS wildcard for blah.dev

BIND configuration

/etc/bind/named.conf.local 
zone "dev" {
   type master;
   file "/etc/bind/db.dev";
};

run"named-checkconf named.conf.local"

/etc/bind/db.dev:  use the loopback address so the IP address is not affected by DHCP.
dev. 86400 IN SOA dev. hostmaster.dev. (
               20111101; serial yyyy-mm-dd
               10800; refresh every 15 min
                3600; retry every hour
                 3600000; expire after 1 month +
                86400 ); min ttl of 1 day
  IN NS dev.
  IN MX 10 dev.
  IN A 127.0.0.1
*.dev. IN A 127.0.0.1

named-checkzone dev db.dev

DHCP client configuration

• uncomment the line in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf: prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
• sudo dhclient
• sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 restart

Testing

ping blah.dev will return 127.0.0.1

Set up dnsmasq for local DNS cache and DHCP

disable dnsmasq from networkmanager

sudo vim /etc/NetworkManager.conf.  comment out dnsmasq

sudo service network-manager restart

Install and configure dnsmasq

• sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
• sudo vim /etc/dnsmasq.conf
•     listen-address=127.0.0.1
•     address=/dev/127.0.0.1
•     address=/prod/127.0.0.1
• sudo service dnsmasq restart

Set up Apache for vhost_alias
 

mod_vhost_alias

• sudo a2enmod vhost_alias (this will enable module vhost_alias for loading). 
• sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/vhost_alias.conf    (create one if not existing)

<VirtualHost *:80>
# get the server name from the Host: header and put in %0

 # this is for dev
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mongo.dev$
RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost:28017/_replSet


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mongo.snap$
RewriteRule (.*) http://192.168.1.100:28000/_replSet



UseCanonicalName Off

# include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/%0

<Directory />
# Global settings
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

install Plone 4.1.x

Ubuntu: 11.10

Install all the required package

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline6-dev

./install.sh --target=/home/vyang/opt/plone --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.6 standalone 

Install RVM and Ruby

rvm, virutualenv

Remove ubuntu's ruby-rvm

sudo apt-get --purge ruby-rvm

Install 

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
rvm list known
rvm install 1.9.3-head

Configuration (.bashrc)

 PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting

source /home/victor.yang/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Install sproutcore

 Ubuntu 11.10

Step 1 has be done before step 2, otherwise the ruby will complain about "zlib not installed"

apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev
Follow steps in install sproutcore on linux

install sun-jdk 6, 7 on Ubuntu 12.04

http://www.devsniper.com/ubuntu-12-04-install-sun-jdk-6-7/

sudo update-alternatives --config java

sudo update-alternatives --config javac

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javac" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javaws" 1 

how to set up tomcat6 instances on natty

setup tomcat6 on natty

mysqladmin

mysqladmin cmd 


mysql -u uid -p blah_db <blah.sql

Python study notes

python overview

• abstraction: 
• type: dynamic binding, strong type(for catching bugs)
• object is first class:objects can be freely passed around, inspected, and placed in various data structures (e.g., lists or dictionaries) at run-time.
• organizing code: package, module, class,method, function. 
• flow control: if/else,while, iterator,generator, coroutine
• error handling: try/except/finally

History of Python builtin types   

• Influenced by ABC

python user defined class design

• runtime data structure of instances and class, inheritance
• instance dict, class dict
• why "self" is needed
• class implementation requires no special syntax: just a collection of functions (methods), variables (class variables), computed attributed(properties).  
• new style classes, 
• __new__(cls,*args,**kwargs) is used for change value for subclassing immutable type  
• Attributes,Properties and Descriptors 
• History of descriptor,staticmethod, classmethod, property
• metaclass explained: metaclass 

• type(name, bases, dict) Return a new type object. This is essentially a dynamic form of the class statement. Python will look for __metaclass__ in the class definition. If it finds it, if will use it to create the object class Foo. If it doesn't, it will use type to create the class.

   

object is first class

• how to make method first class? via bound and unbound method

every statement is treated the same

• benefit: share the same grammar rule, and hence the compiler could use the same byte code generation function for all of them.

exception design

• early days implemented as string token (from Modula-3) 
• user defined class as replacement

cpython source code study note

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0339/

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/articles/

Python compiler

Python 2.7.2 source code

• main():Modules/python.c 
• Py_Main():Modules/main.c
• Py_Initialize(): Python/pythonrun.c
• PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags
• PyRun_FileExFlags
• PyParser_ASTFromFile returns AST module
• Parser build CST: PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx: Parser/parsetok.c
• Transform CST to AST: PyAST_FromNode(): Python/ast.c
• run_mod(mod) 
• PyAST_Compile(mod) compile AST into byte code
• PyEval_EvalCode runs the byte code
• create first interpreter PyInterperterState_New()
• create first thread PyThreadState_New()
• initialize __builtin__ module: _PyBuiltin_Init()
• initialize sys module: _PySys_init()

DNS query tracing

dig @dns.server target.dns +tracing

watch it under wireshark, It is very useful to understand how DNS query works especially for a non-cached look up.

• As a DNS client, dig will send a standard DNS query to the target DNS server via UDP port 53. 
• For a non-cached look up, dig will ask the answer from root server, TLD (Top Level Domain) server, specific domain server in that order.

Packet crafting and sniffing with Python extensions

• libpcap: sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev

• download and install pypcap, dpkt, dnet
• pypcap 's installation is tricky: download the pyrex and recompile the pcap.pyx file will work. Furthermore, use Makefile instead of setup.py seems fixed issues.

gevent and uWSGI beats the rest of WSGI Python

python vim set up

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Vim

Tab to space for indentation: Configure Eclipse and Pydev editors

Configure Eclipse and Pydev editors

• Go to "Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors"
• Set "Displayed tab width" to 4 and make sure "Insert spaces for tabs" is checked
• Go to "Window > Preferences > Pydev > Editor"
• Set "Tab length" to 4 and make sure "Replace tabs with spaces..." is checked

Oracle Net: TNS and EasyConnect

1. sqlplus id/pwd@
2. sqlplus id/pwd@server:port/service (service is schema that is given by DBA)

cx_Oracle

Follow http://mostperfect.net/blog/2010/07/28/installing-cx_oracle-on-windows/,

A looking at cx_Oracle.pyd with dependency walker (from MS) will show it depends on OCI.dll.
As a result, we need to install Oracle Instant Client from here

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html

strace

stats: strace -c -p

look for system call: strace -f -p -e epoll_wait

Customize the Nginx Server:Apache

1. vi src/http/ngx_http_header_filter_module.c
2. static char ngx_http_server_string[] = "Server: Apache" CRLF;
3. static char ngx_http_server_full_string[] = "Server: Apache" CRLF;
4. configure, make, make install.