Yesterday I posted my article to one of my other blogs, LeavingCorporate.com. It is called “I have a Startup” Midwest vs. Bay Area
Archive for December, 2008
28 Dec
Django-admin.py startproject > Unknown Command
This is hardly worth a post but I’d found nothing on google for the fix and so I’m documenting it here for others. In Django v 1.0 django-admin.py has smartly been altered to behave the same as ./manage.py. It seems that this has effected the startproject command in the event that your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable [...]
27 Dec
Proportional Image Resize in JavaScript
Socialbrowse currently shows summaries of shared links that have an ATOM or RSS feed. The feeds come with images of all sizes and we have to change the height and width to fit within the alloted space. CSS has max-width and max-height parameters but they have issues in IE and they don’t keep original proportions [...]
22 Dec
Host Your Own Git Repository
Today I set up a git repository on our dev server. If you have some cash and don’t want to deal with hosting and backing up the repo yourself I recomend you check hosting services such as github. But, if you are like me and have more servers than cache you’ll want to set up [...]
21 Dec
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Another book I finished reading recently is Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence People. This book has a special meaning to me, and it was my 4th time reading it. When I was in 6th grade, my grandpa, a very quiet man that I respect greatly, gave me the book and told me [...]
18 Dec
Man’s Search For Meaning
I just finished reading Viktore E. Frank’s Man’s search for Meaning and highly recommend it. It is by a psychologist who spent two years in concentration camps during WWII. There are two parts: the first is an account and observations of the time he spent in the camps. The second is an introduction to logotherapy, [...]
16 Dec
Get Around Corporate Firewalls: Make Your Own Proxy
I’ve been doing some research into all kinds of proxies lately. One of the simple examples I tried out has a great working use case. It is especially useful if you are in the following situation. 1. Your work blocks/firewalls certain websites and this bugs you. 2. You have a server somewhere that you can [...]
16 Dec
Learning Again!
I’m revitalizing blog from of my former startup thingsilearned.com. The startup unfortunately never got the launch stage but is a great url, and has made an excellent and well trafficked blog. Lately I’ve had the urge again to start writing about the things I learn. I am going to attempt the impossible goal of posting [...]
