Launched!

I’m finally getting a blog started. I’m dual booting Windows and Ubuntu, and had to fix rubypython on Windows (so Octopress can use Pygments for syntax highlighting). I took this pull request and modified it slightly to work with newer Python installers.

This is how I fixed syntax highlighting lib/rubypython/pythonexec.rb
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if FFI::Platform.windows?
  # Do this after trying to add alternative extensions, 
  # since windows install has a python27.a and can cause 
  # troble.
  #
  # Some Windows python installers install the DLL in the python directory
  # others install in the Windows system directory.  So we should search both.
  path = File.dirname(@python)
  windir = ENV['WINDIR']
  # Windows Python doesn't like ' with inner " so we have to switch it around. 
  winversion = %x(#{@python} -c "import sys; print '%d%d' % sys.version_info[:2]").chomp
  dll = "python#{winversion}.dll"
  locations << File.join(windir, "System32", dll)
  locations << File.join(windir, "SysWOW64", dll)
  locations << File.join(path, dll)
  locations << File.join(path, "libs", dll)
end