Archive for 2007/1
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So I Have This Design Question...
-- Jan. 19, 2007, 4:25 p.m.
I occasionally get questions from people with whom I used to work asking me design questions. They have a particular problem they want to solve, and are wondering what approaches they might take to design a solution to this problem. Sounds fine, but the conversation usually goes like this: Former Coworker: I've got this problem where I need to be ...
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Hacking the Django Admin UI: Hiding Rows
-- Jan. 19, 2007, 1:13 p.m.
This week's project has been a multi-user blogging application. I've added pretty much every API I could find (that made sense) to allow users to upload posts, but it still seems like it would be good to have a user interface for managing these things. Lucky for me, Django comes with one. The problem, though, is that the security isn't ...
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This Week's Project
-- Jan. 17, 2007, 11:47 a.m.
I've been involved in some conversations with educators regarding kids media and stuff like that. It was really quite interesting, so I thought I'd write some multi-user blog software that might fit the audience. I started writing the software Monday night while going through all the 24 premiers the TiVo picked up. Last night, I mostly finished it and migrated ...
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Words of Wisdom
-- Jan. 16, 2007, 10 p.m.
I just wanted to take a moment to post a brilliant comment from my ex-wife. It doesn't make sense to me, but I think it's funny. (this is verbatim -- mistakes aren't mine) You do realize your like a football player without an education, you can only do one thing, computers.
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My Photo Album's Tenth Year
-- Jan. 6, 2007, 9:43 p.m.
I just noticed that my photo album is ten years old this year. Well, at least the end of this year, but the first image is dated Added: 1997-11-01 17:27:58 by dustin. This has been my technology testbed. It started out as some perl CGIs, and then moved to mod_perl after a while. I had a custom templating system. I ...