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2009

homebrew. Exciting alternative to MacPorts for compiling software on OS X—homebrew avoids sudo and defines packages as simple Ruby scripts, shared and distributed using Git.

# 21st September 2009, 6:51 pm / homebrew, osx, git, ruby, macports

2008

lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library. I just wish I could get the wretched thing to install on OS X Leopard without resorting to MacPorts.

# 11th December 2008, 9:54 am / lxml, macports, python, screenscraping, ian-bicking