mysqld.pid). - MySQL

27 Jun 2014 . * The server quit without updating PID file (/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid).

If you're getting this error message, try using sudo to start mysql.

Submit Form When User Clicks Option (autosubmit) - Typeahead.js

19 Jun 2014 http://stackoverflow.com/a/18483816/1364191

The bolded section below will automatically submit your form when you select an option from the Typeahead.js dropdown:
$('#remote .typeahead').typeahead(null, {
displayKey: 'value',
source: site_search.ttAdapter()
}).on('typeahead:selected', function(e){
e.target.form.submit();
});

Using Enter Key With Typeahead.js - Javascript

19 Jun 2014 https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/issues/255

If your text input with typeahead.js is not letting you use the enter key, you need to add a submit button (if you don't already have one).

You can hide it if you want:
<input type="submit" value="Submit" style="display: none">

WinSCP vs Samba For Windows <---> Ubuntu Development

12 Jun 2014

I’ve always used WinSCP to transfer files between my Windows development environment and Ubuntu. It worked pretty well. All you had to do was open the file with your editor by clicking the file in WinSCP, and when you saved the file it would save to the server in the background.

The main negative was the lack of feedback when a file fails to save to the server. WinSCP could be logged out and asking for a password in the background, but you were expecting that save to fix the bug you were working on. It ended up being another thing to debug.

A coworker suggested using Samba instead. I installed it with this simple guide: How to Create a Network Share Via Samba Via CLI Then I mapped the network drive in Windows by going to the “Map Network Drive” option in the tools menu of the file explorer:

map network drive

The only negative I’ve found with Samba so far is that it makes Notepad++ a little less responsive. But it helps a small amount if you turn off “File Status Auto-Detection”:

File Status Auto-Detection

Relative Paths In Scripts Run By Crontab - Python

10 Jun 2014 I learned that a script run by crontab can't have a relative path.

This fix was here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10422444

The following example opens my_file.txt in a path relative to your script:
import os
dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
with open (os.path.join(dir_path, 'my_file.txt'), "r") as myfile:
mytext = myfile.read()

ELSE in FOR loops - Python

09 Jun 2014 http://stackoverflow.com/a/9980160

Turns out that you can use ELSE after a FOR loop to make it give an output if it didn't have anything to iterate.

Undoing git rm -r --cached

09 Jun 2014 I followed these instructions to gitignore an already committed file: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6535362/gitignore-after-commit

When I wanted to start tracking it again, I needed to following these instructions: https://gist.github.com/laszlomiklosik/3833968

Make sure you save a backup of your current version before you check out the file again.

Multiple DSNs All Connecting To The Same IP - Sybase ODBC

05 Jun 2014 The problem: You have multiple DSNs defined in your unixODBC's odbc.ini file, and it always connects to the same IP when you try testing with iSQL.

The solution:
DO NOT use the following line in your odbc.ini file to define your DSN's port:
CommLinks = tcpip(host=localhost;port=9502)

DO use the following format:

CommLinks = tcpip(HOST=localhost:9502)

Compress - Sybase ODBC

05 Jun 2014 Sybase has a odbc parameter called "Compress" that is disabled by default. It's very useful if you're running queries on something with slow network transfer speeds and large datasets.

Example:
Compress = yes

This improve the performance of my query by about 40%.

[IM004] [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_HENV failed (0) (SQLDriverConnect) - Ubuntu

02 Jun 2014 The link to download SQLanywhere is here: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1087327

To install it, you need to unzip the file and run "./setup" in the top level directory in the unzipped folder.

I also installed:
https://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/ (use the .zip file on the left)
http://onefinepub.com/2014/03/05/installing-unixodbc-2-3-2-higher-ubuntu-12-04-lts/

The first error message I received was:
sqlanydb.InterfaceError: Could not load dbcapi. Tried: dbcapi.dll,libdbcapi_r.so,libdbcapi_r.dylib
Exception AttributeError: "'Root' object has no attribute 'api'" in <bound method Root.__del__ of <sqlanydb.Root object at 0x3061150>> ignored

This error is resolved by creating a file called "/etc/ld.so.conf.d/sqlanywhere.conf" and adding a line with "/opt/sqlanywhere12/lib64". Then you will need to run ldconfig -v.

The error message in the title occurred on Ubuntu because unixODBC was unable to find all of the libraries it needed to run.

This helped to find the issue: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dataaccesstechnologies/archive/2014/01/22/sqlallochandle-on-sql-handle-henv-from-linux-sqlncli-driver.aspx

strace -t -f -o trace_out.txt isql -v <DSN>< USERNAME> <PASSWORD>

It will show there are a bunch of missing files. The issue was resolved when isql was run from the /opt/sqlanywhere12/bin64 directory. This indicated that it's not looking in the right place for the library files. Run the following: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/opt/sqlanywhere12/lib64'

Not having the environmental variable above will also cause "sqlanydb.InterfaceError: dbcapi version 1 required." if you're using python's sqlanydb library.

It will give a "file not found" error if you try using bin32/lib32 files on a 64 bit system. Make sure you use the bin64/lib64 files in the "Driver=" fild in your /etc/odbc.ini file (if you're using a 64 bit system)!

Now you will receive an error saying "Parse error: DSN does not exist". You need to add an ODBC_INI environmental variable to where your DSNs are defined. I ran the following: export ODBC_INI='/etc/odbc.ini'

To make those variables we exported work system-wide and continue to work even after we log out:

sudo nano /etc/environment
Add:
ODBC_INI='/etc/odbc.ini'
LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/opt/sqlanywhere12/lib64'

These articles were helpful:
https://hynek.me/articles/twisted-sybase/
https://hynek.me/articles/a-short-summary-on-sybase-sql-anywhere-python/

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