urllib2.URLError Python SUDS library

03 Oct 2013

To figure this out, you're going to need logging. Turn on logging with the following:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2388046/can-you-help-me-solve-this-suds-soap-issue

import logging logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO) logging.getLogger('suds.client').setLevel(logging.DEBUG) logging.getLogger('suds.transport').setLevel(logging.DEBUG) logging.getLogger('suds.xsd.schema').setLevel(logging.DEBUG) logging.getLogger('suds.wsdl').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

pip 1.3 Not Working Behind Proxy

03 Oct 2013 http://pythontesting.net/python/pip/

Like this article says, it's fixed in the dev version of pip.

Bootstrap Starter Templates

03 Oct 2013 http://startbootstrap.com/all-templates

Installing Nagios

02 Oct 2013 I had a heck of a time finding the config file for nagios. It's under: /etc/nagios3/conf.d/localhost_nagios2.cfg

These guides were helpful:
http://ostatic.com/blog/monitoring-web-services-with-nagios
https://library.linode.com/server-monitoring/nagios/ubuntu-12.04-precise-pangolin

MySQL Not Starting On Reboot

01 Oct 2013 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9859381/how-make-mysql-start-automatically-linux-cli-only

I was able to to the following, based on the post above:

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
sudo sysv-rc-conf
mark the 6 column for mysqld or mysql.server (6 = reboot)

Note: I tried sudo update-rc.d mysql.server defaults and it didn't work. It gave me the following error: System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/mysql.server already exist.

Fira Font

25 Sep 2013 https://github.com/mozilla/Fira

Mozilla's new Fira font looks great. Looking forward to use it on some future projects.

MySQL IF Statement Affect On Speed

19 Sep 2013 if(`table`.`start`='0000-00-00','',`table`.`start`)

That's the part of my query that was increasing the execution time by 10x.

I changed it to just `table`.`start` (without the IF statement) and the query was 10x faster.

Phonegap Start (for Phonegap Build)

18 Sep 2013

"A Hello World application to get started with PhoneGap Build."

https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-start

Twilio PHP Library Using A Proxy

17 Sep 2013 https://github.com/twilio/twilio-php/issues/144

I found a spot where I can add a proxy to the twilio PHP library.

Go to TinyHttp.php and add the highlighted part (using your own URL of course):

$opts[CURLOPT_PROXY] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/';
try {
      if ($curl = curl_init()) {

Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket

17 Sep 2013 Error: Can't find out if NetworkManager is running: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory.
The following fixed the problem:
apt-get install dbus
(if you already have dbus installed: sudo service dbus start)
/etc/init.d/network-manager start

What caused the error?:
/etc/init.d/network restart

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