osx-snow-leopard

I recently converted from macports to homebrew and my previous macports Imagemagick install was working fine. I followed the homebrew instructions to chown /usr/local (somewhat apprehensively) and remove /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib. When trying to work with any jpeg images, imagemagick chokes with: no decode delegate for this image format Here is a list of some relevant command output. As you can see, no jpeg/jpg delegate can be found. convert -list configure => DELEGATES bzlib freetype png x11 xml zlib identify -list configure => DELEGATES bzlib freetype png x11 xml zlib However,

I am trying to write an Assertion to check if the size the user gives is a positive value, if not then make it positive, this statement is inside the class constructor which takes the size value and then makes an array[size]. I have written the below code which i believe to be correct. public Grid(int size) { try{ assert size > 0 ; } catch(AssertionError e){ size = Math.abs(size); } setLayout(new GridLayout(size, size)); grid = new JButton[size][size]; } Though I never seems to evaluate my assertion and continues the program then causes the NegativeArraySize error( which i am trying to avoid)

I am about to start my A-Level Computing project (High School Level) which will hopefully be a point-of-sale application for Mac OS. Unfortunately, Objective-C is a little out of my league at the moment and should I get stuck with it in the project I have no one to help out so I would fail the section of the course and not get into University. So this is quite important to me. I want to use Python to develop a Cocoa app. I know that I need PyObjc, however all details on the net seem to assume it is pre-installed. Apparently this is the case with Leopard and Snow Leopard but I don't seem to

I am a newbie learning Python/Django... Am using the following tutorial located here . Created a mysite database in MySQL 5 running on Snow Leopard. Edited the settings.py file to look like this: DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql' DATABASE_NAME = 'mysite' DATABASE_USER = 'root' DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' DATABASE_HOST = '' DATABASE_PORT = '' Now when I run the following command: python manage.py syncdb I receive the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 11, in <module> execute_manager(settings) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ python2.6/site