Matt Bracewell

Playing with the new Google App Engine Launcher this evening I spotted this warning every time the dev_appserver server kicked up:

WARNING  2009-08-10 22:37:23,407 dev_appserver.py:3358
Could not initialize images API; you are likely missing the Python "PIL" module.
ImportError: No module named _imaging

A comment from praseodym on the GAE Cookbook recipe Install PIL in Mac OS X provided this one liner:

sudo easy_install --find-links http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Imaging

I ran the command in Terminal and was impressed with a speedy auto install and, ignoring a few errors in the verbose output, restarted the dev_appserver. Same warning!

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As a follow on from Django on OS X – getting started here’s what happened after I took Stuart’s advice, installed Xcode and atempted to add mod_wsgi to apache.  Before I start let’s just clarify that I’m using MAMP Pro 1.7 on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.  This provides me with Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.3 DAV/2. 

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I started to get this error while I was monkeying around with the latest version on my MacBook.

Cannot find tslib/. Please set path by defining $configured_tslib_path in index.php.

I had to go as far as to have a quick look at index.php to discover that I’d incorrectly named my typo3 folder (er, symlink actually). D’oh!

I’d decided a while ago to invest some time learning Python, already had MAMP Pro happily running on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4 so it made sense to push further and have a look at Django – the Python Web Framework. I’m following the beautifully written Django Book and an amalgam of google results.

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As I find myself rarely needing to network my MacBook Pro with anything nowadays I inevitably find myself having to trawl a noise of Google results to obtain the desired effect.

Should be straightforward enough. I’ve enabled file sharing on the mac and been networking most flavours of Windows over the years. The problem is that on authenticating as the appropriate mac user from the Vista end the expected mac user-name format of macmachinename\user-name isn’t accepted.

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Nokia’s support for the Mac platform is paltry – everything seems to rely on an installation of Nokia Suite which is PC only. Apple’s iSync steps in to synchronise contacts and calendar entries between the two but sms messages are seemingly stored on the phone forever.

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