Posts in the linux category

by flipperpa on Dec. 19, 2017, 2:50 p.m.

Here's a quick trick using the Python library pygments to enable pretty colors in your terminal when viewing source code. It detects which syntax highlighter to use by the file's extension.

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by flipperpa on May 7, 2018, 5:34 p.m.

Django offers support for SQL Server through the third-party database engine, django-pyodbc-azure. Here's an end-to-end set of instructions for the best practices for installing it in 2018.

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by flipperpa on Feb. 6, 2019, 6:15 p.m.

Easing the transition to venv...

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by flipperpa on Jan. 17, 2020, 4:30 p.m.

If you're like me, your git branches can get out of control over time. Here's some bash sorcery which will give a list of all branches that have been merged to origin/master.

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by flipperpa on June 17, 2020, 1:16 p.m.

Django offers support for SQL Server through the third-party database engine, django-mssql-backend. Here's an end-to-end set of instructions for the best practices for installing it in 2020.

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