Week 133

”[T]here’s something splendid waiting for you to go and find it, far out yonder. I wonder if I’d feel it now, or if it happens only when you’re young, and have no thought for the ill things that may lie along the way.” Flashman …

True Love: A Play in One Act

OUTDOORS - NIGHT - FENWAY PARK

A nice April night, game is in the middle innings, Kevin Youkilis coming up to bat.

Michelle: After this at bat, I’m going to the bathroom, no matter what Youk does. Me: What if he cries out your …

Week 132

“Well, the Devil made me do it the first time/ Second time I done it on my own.” Billy Joe Shaver, “Black Rose”

Never got around to the last couple of weekly updates. There wasn’t much of interest, technology-wise, and they burned the hell out of me …

Week 129

“There’s no sense in a man picking out the worst name he can find for everything.”
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

On Wednesday, I attended the NH UPA presentation on focus groups. I spent a lot of the time wondering about the effect of group dynamics on end …

Week 128

Not much changed from last week, mainly working to push the social networking site out the door (while working on a proposal for another Django/ Pinax project). This week did mark the first time I actually got a Fabric script working (not that it’s hard, just that …

Week 127

(idea cribbed from BERG, week count done by Wolfram Alpha because I am too lazy)

”[T]he beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest.” The Third Policeman*

Mix …

On Optimization

It’s strange what you can get used to: the current social network site I’m working on has a page with 216 database queries on it. Used to be I’d get the hives if I hit a dozen queries on a page.

“216! Did you know …

Microformat Proposal: Coding Experience

When I’m working, even in a language I know well, I often search for how to do something; either because I don’t know or because I feel there’s a better way (as @ed_atwell says, “I don’t know, but I bet my friends …

Cheating at The Beatles: Rock Band

My favorite thing about the game is the harmonizing and the way it increases the feeling that you’re really in a band, but if you’re all about the score (or bereft of friends), feel free to take advantage of these two pieces …

Django/ Pinax: Problems With Login() in Unit Tests

This is the first in what promise to be a number of “Stupid Django Tricks” where the “stupid” is me and not Django. I was having a good deal of trouble creating unit tests for authenticated views (i.e., pages that require …