Cheap and simple. Your own mini, inexpensive personal organizer. PocketMod
Timocracy
Word of the Day: Timocracy (noun) Pronunciation: [ti-‘mah-krê-si] Definition: Plato considered timocracy government by principles of honor. To Aristotle it was a government in which the ownership of property is a prerequisite for holding office. Usage: The adjective for today’s
Adding additional links to Django’s Admin
If you’re like me, you’d like to add some new links to one of the Django admin lists (perhaps to delete right from the list or to direct a user to a custom made view). Here’s the relevant code: To
Download DVDs onto my 30GB iPod
Trying to download DVDs onto my 30g iPod? Here’s how I did it. The official way to do this is to purchase Quicktime Pro from Apple but it doesn’t support all video types (especially not ones that are downloaded off
Safari and Django Redirects
I was working on a Django Project (http://naturalareas.saleient.com/) and I was having trouble with people visiting the site with Mac’s Safari. As it turns out, a shortcut I was using was causing the problem. I was using HttpResponseRedirect(“/page-name/”) and apparently
TeamRemind.com Beta Launch
Yup, we’re finally ready to show this guy off a little bit. The look and feel of it is not set yet and we’re still finalizing a few features but it’s good enough to show a few people and have
Code Search Engine – Krugle
Bad name but a great service for programmers. http://www.krugle.com/
Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=m_gladwell Malcolm talks about how there is no perfect Pepsi but rather only perfect Pepsis. He describes how it is important to understand humans have variability. Some great anecdotes. Check out the rest of the site while you’re there.
Work life update
Here’s a few cool projects that I’ve worked on over the past couple years. Enjoy. http://www.nothingbutnets.net (I did a bunch of the set up on this site. The design was created by a company in Vancouver) http://naturalareas.saleient.com/ This site is
Django Newforms
Binding a form to a model instanceDjango’s newforms module provides the helper method ‘form_for_instance’. The method will return a Form similar to the one returned by form_for_model but the initial data will be populated by the instance’s data. The form