I’ve been a fanatic about finding the best ways to organize my life and stay “on top of things”. There are a million articles online on how to go about this. I’ve read my fare share of these and tried a lot of the methods out. Usually something ends up working decent for a while [...]
Archive for the ‘thingsilearned’ Category
10 Aug
Log Observer using Python’s subprocess
Today I needed to write a wrapper around a program that would examine the stdio and respond immediately to certain results. The task was handled nicely with a python script using subprocess. There isn’t a lot of documentation examples on it so to figure it out I wrote this small test app and I thought [...]
8 Jun
New Blog Design By Amanda Scharlemann
A few weeks ago I published a request for a generous designer to create a unique look for this blog. Amanda Scharlemann was the first to respond and was a pleasure to work with! Amanda is a design student at Bethany Lutheran College and shows great potential. She had never worked with customizing WordPress Templates [...]
13 Mar
Adding Custom Commands to manage.py and django-admin.py
In Django it is very straight forward to add extra commands to the manage.py and django-admin.py scripts. The Django Documentation describes the process but gives no examples. I like examples so I’m writing this for others. In the past I’d add these to make stand alone scripts that used the Django libraries. from django.conf import [...]
18 Feb
Traffic Trends: Negativity = More Traffic?
Almost two years ago on a cranky afternoon I wrote this uninformed and poorly edited article: Xcode Editor Kinda sux. Since that day it has consistently been the top daily hit on my blog. I did some Googlein’ and discovered that it is the top link (maybe just in my search context) when searching for [...]
30 Sep
Electric Fence on OS X
I recently suspected the dreaded buffer overrun in a project I’m hacking for work. These can be a huge pain to find, especially if your code has a considerable amount of mallocs and fails irregularly. After dismissing the urge to just write it all in python (wasn’t practical for the application) I decided to learn [...]
14 Aug
Zope3/Plone to Django
I was going to write a brief summary/closer on our summer but ended up writing this lengthy article about our startup’s decision to switch to Django from Zope3/Plone as it is the major reason we’ve missed our previously projected release dates. Its difficult for me to post this as it may appear to cast some [...]
12 Jul
An energy drink recipe: Green Tea Pepsi
Vu here. For a pumped up energy-drink (without all the added amino acids), I like to prepare a green tea and Pepsi mixture that not only tastes good, but has all the caffeine I’ll need (about 40mg) and all the benefits that green tea potentially offers. Here’s how to make it: Steep your favorite green [...]
6 Jul
Organized Database Designing
This isn’t an article on good practices in database design. We definitely wouldn’t be the guys to ask about that. However, after many days of deliberation, and by deliberation I mean yelling, calling each other various names, and wasting several tablets of paper we have finally completed and have some suggestions on how to keep [...]
29 Jun
ThingsILearned User Case
I have a TON of things to post about this past week and the amazing amount of thingsilearned at the doccom Plone sprint hosted by google. I also want to share some stories about the awesomeness that is the google campus, but for now I just want to note my current feeling of awesomeness toward [...]
