When using gp.vcsdevelop bear in mind that you'll explicitly have to add the egg installed by gp.vcsdevelop (through using pip) to the buildout eggs.

For example if you want to add grappelli revision 1072 from googlecode's svn and django-nose revision bda1f7820223f913e09d from github to your django project, do it like so:

[...]

For our subversion repositories we only allow users to connect through ssh public key login. We are switching towards using Fabric for doing automated deployments (in combination with zc.buildout, which we already use). Unfortunately it seems that both Fabric and paramiko, the python library Fabric uses for making ssh connections, don't support the ForwardAgent option in ~/.ssh/config which allows you to forward your ssh-agent to ... [...]

To import large amounts of CSV data from a file into a MySQL database you can use the LOAD DATA [LOCAL] INFILE command. There are some caveats using this command having to do with security. In order for LOAD DATA to work you will have to enable the command on both the server and client. To do this for the server, you can edit your ... [...]