My solution:

1. In the psycopg dir, edit setup.cfg and add the line

   library_dirs=/opt/local/lib

2. Add a symbolic link to patch weird zlib issues:

   ln -s /opt /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/opt

   I know this is unpleasant, but it works. Got the idea from here.

Now the build should work. I still got warnings about arch conflicts, but I think this has something to do with it trying to build versions for both PPC and 386, and since I only need the 386 version, I blissfully ignore such warnings.

wget -H -rl 1 --page-requisites --convert-links --backup-converted --html-extension http://thesite.net

To install, just drag the file Kid.mode to ~/Library/Application Support/SubEthaEdit/Modes/

1. In the ZMI, go to portal_properties -> site_properties
2. In the typesUseViewActionInListings box, remove the file listing

Simple once you know it, but seemingly impossible to find without intimate knowledge of the system.

Debugging

Run a script through the Python debugger (pdb)

run -d script.py

Run a script through pdb w/ a breakpoint at line 10

run -d -b10 script.py

List all variables in the local namespace

whos

Clear all variables in the local namespace

reset

Recusrively reload a module and its submodules

dreload module

Installation

apt-get install gimp

Removal

apt-get remove gimp

Search

apt-cache search gimp

Dependencies

apt-cache depends gimp
apt-cache depends --installed gimp
apt-cache rdepends gimp

List Installed Packages

dpkg -l |grep gimp

Manually Compiling & Installing for Use in apt

Manual compilation is all well and good, but compiling a Debian package makes it easier to uninstall things cleanly.
./configure
checkinstall

Editing

Your favorite text editor.

Validation

XML Nanny – supports DTD, XML Schema, RELAX NG, and Schematron

Query & Transformation

XSLPalette – haven’t played with it yet, but claims to support XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 debuggery.

Addendum

It does, but it’s certainly not a replacement for XMLSpy’s XPath functionality. For that I turned to the 4suite XML package for Python. Using it within an interpretive shell (IPython, in my case) worked alright:

from Ft.Xml.Domlette import NonvalidatingReader as NVR
doc = NVR.parseUri('file:document.xml')
doc.xpath('//someElement')

Aside from serious performance issues on large documents it seemed to work ok. NOTE: if your XML document has a namespace set, the xpath() method will return nothing if you query for elements in the document without first decalring the XPath namespace. It won’t give you any friendly error messages explaining what’s going wrong. Check out the docs.

Generating a Schema from an Instance

Because sloth is a virtue in development. A couple solutions discussed in XML Hacks (sorry, not free), but the one that worked the quickes for me was…

DTDGenerator – creates a DTD from an XML document instance.
Usage:
java DTDGenerator inputfile > outputfile

Others: Trang (RELAX NG, DTD, XML Schema), Relaxer (RELAX NG, DTD, XML Schema)

# Need to have FollowSymlinks for mod_rewrite to work its magic
Options +FollowSymlinks

# Send all requests to index-maintenance.html using a pass through, so the
# request URL looks the same
RewriteRule /* index-maintenance.html [PT]

Cribbed from here and here.

apt-get install gcc g++ make

Then, of course, there’s what comes with dealing with packaged versions of software you normally install yourself: installation in weird places. Why are the PHP libs in /usr/share/php/ and not /usr/lib/? What the hell? Gentoo is far more sane when it comes to these things, but with far less hand-holding when it comes to X11 nonsense, which is why I’m trying Ubuntu. But wait! How do I get Ubuntu to recognize my Apple Cinema Display and set correct resolutions? What’s that you say? Open up a shell?! What is this, Gentoo? I shouldn’t even have to fix that. And getting dual displays working apparently requires some more xorg hacking.

Ubuntu has a ways to go as far as I’m concerned.