Category Archives: Coding

Mongod error | exception in initAndListen std::exception: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Satish Gandham

I got this error while trying to start mongodb on amazon ec2. Running this command in the terminal solved the problem. export LC_ALL=C I don’t have any idea about what it means at this time except that it sets the … Continue reading →

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Right way to break Django code for debugguing

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Satish Gandham

Django traceback is a very helpful tool in Django development. It saves us from the boring tasking of writing print statements to track variables. Traceback doesn’t kick when there is no error.  There may be no coding errors but there … Continue reading →

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Where are python site packages located in MAC OSX Mountain Lion

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Satish Gandham

Python site packages are located at Library/Python/2.7/site-packages

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Error whil creating super user in django1.4 on MAC

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Satish Gandham

I got the following error while trying to create a super user from shell for django1.4. File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py”, line 85, in get_system_username     return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]) TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None This problem was rectified by running … Continue reading →

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Make command not found in Mac OSX

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Satish Gandham

If you get a -bash: make: command not found error while trying to compile from source, you have to install xcode and then in xcode goto preferences->downloads and install xcode developer tools Download Xcode I’m not sure if you can … Continue reading →

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Trying cakePHP, lets see how it goes.

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Satish Gandham

My growing list of direct AD sales was becoming hard to manage, dealing with direct AD sales was taking more time than it should actually take. It’s not streamlined. I lost AD revenue several times because I was too lazy … Continue reading →

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Subtracting two dimensional arrays in PHP

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Satish Gandham

In the development a WordPress plugin I had to subtract two dimensional arrays. I tried array_diff() function, unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for two dimensional arrays. Even if it worked, it wasn’t exactly the functionality I wanted. Be warned, … Continue reading →

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