apply any other personal settings to your system

consider making a default account with what you've done for here, and propagating that to other accounts.

download emacs install emacs

download quicksilver install it add it to Account Preferences->Login Items also add quicksilver launcher to the Dock

Plugins: Firefox, Terminal, etc. set Quicksilver key to Option-Space

-download latest firefox (mozilla.org) | http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

See firefox.txt for configuration notes

Open System Preferences in Date & Time: enable Set date & time automatically choose timezone use 24-hour clock

System Preferences -> Accounts: Click the lock to make changes. Login Options Automatic Login: Disabled Show fast user switching menu as: Icon

also [2009.06.21 10:57:11] Disable guest account

Check for software updates this can take a while to download

System Preferences -> Sharing change machine name

optionally, if online, check for software updates to your operating system sometimes these are the actual trigger for a restart (shutdown) also [2009.12.10 11:46:02] if updates are taking too long, can restart then check for updates before launching again.

Unit testing is a good habit to get into. There are many unit testing frameworks for Python. Pylons uses one called nosetests and I have been very pleased with it. Here are a few notes I've collected on the topic:

If you are on a shared system, Virtual Env may help isolate your Python instance from other Python instances on the system.

The other component that you will need to install is the Python Imaging Library (often abbreviated as PIL).

Binaries for windows are available at the main site. Binary packages are much easier to install than from source.

For Mac OS X you can use ports, or find a binary package like the following: | http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html | This also requires the 2.5 version of Python from python.org. (The one distributed with Leopard won't work)

also [2009.06.26 13:19:06] after installing the python from python.org, make sure that the python in the default path is using the latest python which python python -V should be 2.5.4

sudo rm /usr/bin/python sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python /usr/bin/python

sudo rm /usr/bin/pythonw sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pythonw /usr/bin/pythonw

See also: | http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/installingPIL.html

Python is included with many operating systems.

An easy way to check if your system already has Python is to open up a terminal / command prompt and type:

python -V

for example: python -V Python 2.5.2

If your operating system does not have Python installed, please visit: | http://www.python.org | For more information on downloading and installing Python for your system.

if there is already an instance that you want to start from, go ahead and grab a copy using whatever version control system you like.

hg clone [source] [destination]

hg init

if you're in emacs with journal installed:

open up the file called instances.txt make a new entry describe the system state (keywords describing what you're doing with the files that are open) press M-x jp (journal print files) save it close emacs (repeat for any other emacs open)

could use a little cleanup, but is available somewhat manually at this point via:

also downloaded to (see also) /charles/downloads/reference/mako-documentation.html

see also /charles/downloads/reference/Regular Expression HOWTO.html