Tagged "ubuntu"

Installing PIL on 64-bit Ubuntu

I’ve just got a new laptop, and wanted to avoid messing around with symbolic links in order to install PIL in a virtual environment. I’ve just discovered patch, and thought I should automate my process of installing PIL (a process which previously involved me making a trivial edit to the setup.py file). This is obviously not particularly revolutionary, but I thought it was quite neat, so thought I’d share it. The script (which is just bash) looks like this:

Moving to Ubuntu for mobile development

My web-development office is a fast-moving place. It averages around 50 miles per hour, and I work on a laptop normally squished between two people on the train to and from the office. When I happen to have a spare moment to build websites at home, I tend to use my desktop, which is running Ubuntu. I do my editing in emacs, where I’ve gradually got things set up more or less as I like them.