1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Django/ Pinax: Problems With Login() in Unit Tests

    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 …

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  4. Monty Back, Rommel Still Dead

    Monty Back, Rommel Still Dead

    Bob Montgomery is doing the color for today’s Red Sox game and I can’t figure out how to feel about it. Monty and the late Ned Martin were the voice of the Red Sox (on WSBK TV38) when I was growing up and …

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  5. Free to a Harmonix Home, Rock Band Idea

    Free to a Harmonix Home, Rock Band Idea

    Why doesn’t Rock Band allow you to create additional cities and venues? Nothing fancy, just the ability to set a city name and country, then create some venues. Venues would just let you select from the existing arenas and clubs1 …

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  6. YUI Rich Text Editor in Django Admin

    YUI Rich Text Editor in Django Admin

    This ain’t exactly rocket science, but it took me an embarrassing amount of time to get there, so I’m posting the code for next time. This will turn a given textarea in your admin area into a WYSIWYG. It’s got …

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