1. Week 129

    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 …

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  2. Week 128

    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 …

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  3. Week 127

    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 …

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  4. On Optimization

    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 …

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  5. My Party Label: My Party Label Order Form

    My Party Label: My Party Label Order Form

    2010-02-13

    Turned manual email order process into an online form.

    Tired of accepting sometimes invalid orders over email, My Party Label came to me to create a form that contained all the information My Party Label needs to fulfill an order. The …

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  6. Microformat Proposal: Coding Experience

    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 …

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  7. Cheating at The Beatles: Rock Band

    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 …

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