Technical notes, my online memory

I use defaults to read most plists on OS X, but it has an annoying habit of being very chatty in the logs. If you want to write code to que...

Occasionally you need to stub out a part of core python for a test to work. In my case it was 'exit', another example is 'open...

To get the list of CAs trusted by Java on OS X: keytool -v -list -keystore /System/Library/Java/Support/CoreDeploy.bundle/Contents/Home/lib...

Flatten a ruby hash into a string. In this case the comma is the key value delimiter and the semicolon is the entry delimiter. irb(main):0...

The ruby Dir.glob command is pretty nice. It provides some of what os.walk provides for python and is a reasonable choice for working with...

Every time I write ruby it seems like I have to re-learn everything. To shortcut the process for next time here is a snippet that demonstra...

My logging was being polluted by pyactiveresource that was writing a lot of useless logs at the 'INFO' level. I wanted my own loggi...