November 2009
7 posts
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Must have changes for when forced to work in XP
This post is different than most of my posts in that there’s nothing cool or sexy about it. It’s about comfort while dealing with having to work with an old windows system.
I have been living in Mac land for so long, that I didn’t even realize that some of these changes were possible. I just chalked it up to Microsoft’s way of punishing the people that use their...
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Impressed with MacRabbit's Espresso editor
I’m going to purchase a license for either Espresso or TextMate and so I’m going to use each for their full trial period, then decide. Right now I’m using Espresso, I’ve been pretty happy with it so far.
It’s always the little things that impress me. Case in point:
Notice the last two open files, they’re both named “urls.py”. This follows...
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How to Run Google Chrome OS in Virtual Box on Mac
If any of you fellow mac users want to try running Chrome OS in a VirtualBox you can follow the really straightforward instructions here:
http://gsiegman.com/2009/nov/20/google-chrome-os-running-virtualbox/
I had it up and running in minutes. Not much to look at yet, but fun if you’re into general nerdery.
Thanks @gsiegman you rock!
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Clock built out of scroll bars with JavaScript, so... →
They built this with MooTools… I’ve gotta say I’ve gotten so into jQuery that I really haven’t given MooTools a chance. I probably should, I’ve heard it’s a bit more advanced and very powerful.
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The Djangonauts thought of everything: {% for %}...
I can’t tell you how often I’ve hit a snag while building something in Django, only to find out that a solution to my problem is already part of the framework. Here’s one such example:
I’m passing a list of “Program” objects to the template and need to loop through them in the template. In a single request I’m outputting a fairly complex html file that...
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Using Fixtures and SQLite for easy dev in Django
When I’m building out a new app I don’t want to deal with setting up databases or repeatedly entering dummy data if I make changes to my models. Django fixtures and SQLite to the rescue!
Here’s how I do it:
In my settings.py here are my relevant db settings:
# create site root variable
import os
SITE_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
DATABASE_ENGINE =...
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RecipeBin, my new iPhone/WebApp
My wife was looking for a good way to organize her recipes, naturally I thought it would be cool to have it on the web, or her iPhone or something. I couldn’t find anything that I liked.
All the apps I saw were over-engineered and even simple tasks like adding a new recipe were unnecessarily complicated. So I figured I’d build one in my spare time. I was looking for an excuse to...