Let's say you have a website that does some heavy lifting. This means that you have designed a backend and hosted it on your web server. Now, you might want to run some processes periodically like generating thumbnails or enriching data in the background. The reason for this is that we don't want to interfere with the … Continue reading How To Schedule Tasks On Linux
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How To Install PIL On Ubuntu
Let's say you want to play around with images in Python. To do that, we need a Python package that can handle all the image manipulation. Python Imaging Library (PIL) is one of most popular libraries that is used to process the image data. Actually, people use Pillow now, which is a modern repackaged version of … Continue reading How To Install PIL On Ubuntu
How To Take A Screenshot On Mac OS X
One of the many good things about Mac OS X is the built in support for taking screenshots. But then again, in this day and age, what operating system doesn't? Well, this is where it differs a little. I am sure most of you know how to capture a screenshot on OS X, but there … Continue reading How To Take A Screenshot On Mac OS X
Why Do We Need CocoaPods?
Linker errors are painful to deal with. When we are working on our Xcode projects and when we almost done with everything, these linker errors pop up to make their point! Even if we can see the libraries right there in the GUI, it still can't find that library. Sounds familiar? Why do we have … Continue reading Why Do We Need CocoaPods?
NTFS Write Support On OS X Mountain Lion
If you have noticed, Mac OS X doesn't support writing onto NTFS disks. But not to worry, you don't have to install any third party drivers to enable this. Mountain Lion 10.8.3 already has native write support for the NTFS. OSX Mountain Lion does have built-in support for NTFS, and it can read and write. However, Apple does not enable it … Continue reading NTFS Write Support On OS X Mountain Lion
How To Reset The Admin Password In Mac OS X
So you have finally gotten yourself in this situation! You have a Mac in front of you and you have forgotten the admin password. You don't have the cd either. What we do we do now? Well, as it turns out, there is a simple procedure to reset the admin password: Restart the macbook. … Continue reading How To Reset The Admin Password In Mac OS X
OpenCV On Mac: How To Get It Up And Running?
OpenCV is a computer vision library used extensively by people in the computer vision field. Until a couple of years ago, OpenCV was a bit hacky and the usage was not very straightforward. But determined efforts by multiple companies finally standardized the process and now it is nice and clean. Computer vision algorithms are computationally … Continue reading OpenCV On Mac: How To Get It Up And Running?
Git Is Gone In OS X Mountain Lion
This blog post is for a very specific group of people who cared enough to notice that git command line tool is not working on their brand new MacBooks with Mountain Lion! If that sentence didn't make sense to you, then you are probably at the wrong place. I got my new Mac last week … Continue reading Git Is Gone In OS X Mountain Lion
Perpetual Enigma 