http://timsloan.net Tales of a Real Macaroni, Sherwood Park, Alberta Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:20:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cheap and simple. Your own mini, inexpensive personal organizer. PocketMod http://timsloan.net/?p=64 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 word is "timocratic" [ti-mê-'kræt-ik] and the adverb is "timocratically." The plural is "timocracies." Suggested ... http://timsloan.net/?p=63 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 your model, add: def some_name(self): return '<a href="/some/admin/url/here/%s/">Link Name</a>' % self.id some_name.allow_tags = True #this ... http://timsloan.net/?p=62 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 the net--but no one does that...) However there is some free software ... http://timsloan.net/?p=61 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 Safari doesn't like this. It's actually looking for the entire ... http://timsloan.net/?p=60 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 some people test it out. We're already getting some good feedback. FYI ... http://timsloan.net/?p=59 Bad name but a great service for programmers. http://www.krugle.com/ http://timsloan.net/?p=58 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. http://timsloan.net/?p=57 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 a survey for the city of Edmonton to see what the citizens think of ... http://timsloan.net/?p=55 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 will have a 'save' method which will save changes to ... http://timsloan.net/?p=54