New Position at Naples Daily News
One of the most respected and award-winning newspaper Web teams in the world has moved to Florida and is looking for an experienced server-side Web developer.NDN Productions -- the online and new media...
View ArticleOh yeah. GMINI 402 baby.
My wife got me a GMINI 402 for Christmas. I wanted to wait a few weeks before actually writing about my experience with it. My first expression when I opened the box was that it was smaller than I...
View ArticleBudgeting
When I was younger budgeting was easier. The reason it was easier because I didn't use a bank account and I would simply put money in designated envelopes. Life was simple.Now that I'm a responsible...
View ArticleHong Kong's Symphony of Light (with video)
Honk Kong lights up the skyline every night with this spectacular show of syncronized lasers, leds and fireworks. Makes Epcot look lame. read more | digg story
View ArticleSay F.U. to linux passwords
I bought a 128 meg usb drive from radio shack because it was on clearance and fit on my keychain. I was trying to find reasons to use it and I found, pam_usb. PAM_USB allows you to store a dsa key on...
View ArticleA cool google map/wiki mash up
I found this the other day, it's pretty cool. You can create a personal map by clicking on the map and type in a description. read more | digg story
View ArticleURGE and iTunes
I got a chance to take a look at Vista Beta 2. While I'm not normally a guy that likes MS products. At first glance, Vista looks good. I could never forget what my wife said when I showed it to here,...
View ArticleTest Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table
If they can produce meat in vitro? For vegitarians like myself that don't eat meat because animals have to die, would I eat it? I don't know.It's an interesting quandery. I don't eat meat because...
View ArticleRSS increases boredom.
Remember back in the day when you could waste hours clicking on the net finding information. It was fun, you felt like you were "surfing" the net.  I just finished reading my feeds on bloglines,...
View Articlecoastalbeat.com woot woot!
So the past three days have been a blur. I got into work on Wednesday with forty-eight hours of work and twenty-four hours to do it. I was not letting the new site launch without the social app I've...
View ArticleOpen Source Dental Software!
I went to the dentist the other day and I noticed the app running on their computer had the title, "Open Dental". I thought, as I sat in the dental chair. Is he using an open source dental app? Sure...
View ArticleHow Beryl/XGL and Deskbar simplified my life
|Screenshot of my simple gnome| Screenshot of my current desktopYesterday I was playing with Gnome's basic layout and I decided because Deskbar was so good at locating what I wanted that it was quicker...
View ArticleSatechi's Bluetooth A2DP/Handsfree FM Carkit
I recently acquired a Satechi's A2DP/Handsfree FM Carkit. What it does is provide both a A2DP Bluetooth profile and a Handsfree profile and transmits the bluetooth audio to your radio via FM. This was...
View ArticleThe KISS approch to GTD project planning
I've never really got how projects work in GTD. I understand how "Next Actions Lists" worked, but never understood how multi-action projects worked in with that. This is what I came up with it. I'm not...
View ArticleWatch out Eric's gone Xubuntu
So I was installing Ubuntu onto my wife's puny laptop (400 mhz, 512 ram) and I thought I'd try something different and install Kubuntu because she complained that she didn't like Linux because it...
View ArticleXubuntu Day 3
So it's been three days since I started using XFCE flavored Ubuntu. It's been a pretty lovely existence, but I have a few tips that's I've come acrossNotification DaemonStock Xubuntu doesn't come with...
View Article10+2*5 bash script
I've been meaning to post this script for a while. It's a little bash script that I wrote to switch xmms playlists using Merlin Mann's 10+2*5 procrastination hack. It's could well be the greatest bit...
View Articleeric.themoritzfamily.com is now more Djangolicious
Now Running on DjangoThanks to this post, I was able to get Django running on Site5Just two daysThanks to djangoprojects.com's blog application I was able to port my wordpress content to django and...
View ArticleRegistration now open
I managed to get django-registration installed now. So you all can now create users.I'll get comments installed as soon as I get a chance. I wanted to get the registration working first before allowing...
View ArticleNew Years preresolutions
Ok, I'm not going call these resolutions, they just happen to be commitments I'm making on the first of the year :)There are three of them, each corresponding to mind, body, and soul.MindRead one book...
View ArticleDonating Bandwidth to Neighbors
My neighbors across the street don't have Internet access so I volunteered my WPA password to them so that they can use my Internet. Today I decided to install a custom WRT54G firmware called CoovaAP...
View ArticlePreResolution follow up
I've almost made it 4 days without a cigarette. I'm pretty much off the nicotine gum, though I'm still carrying around a few pieces of gum in case of emergency.I am currently reading "Flatland" by E....
View ArticleOpen Search
With the invention of the opensearch specification, it has become super easy to create search plugins for Firefox 2.0+ and IE7. Here's an example:<?xml...
View Articlepython interface to the mozilla DOM
Glenn Franxman and I were brain storming on how to do unittesting with a real browser DOM with working javascript. Basically everything accessible to the browser could be accessible to pythonI ran...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Engine, wait what?!?
So I saw a post to this last night and I thought, "Oh it's like Amazon's EC2 I won't ever need that".Much to my surprise this morning, it's something I could really need. It's a sandboxed distributed...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Engine without Django colored glasses
So after a day of mulling over GAE, I've come up with one conclusion. For one-off apps, this is brilliant. What Ruby and Rails did in it's heyday, this is going to do. No need to figure out how to set...
View ArticleMy site is now on slicehost
I just migrated my blog to slicehost because I finally got fed up with site5's janky django setup.I noticed that I broke my link to the django aggregrator when I moved my blog off wordpress and onto...
View ArticleYour own appengine
My main gripe with appengine is that while you're sticking your app on a lot of iron, it's pretty much stuck there forever because of the infrastructure. Your app is not portable. You can't just take...
View ArticleYour own appengine, maybe not yet
Well, I started looking at both Parallel Python and CouchDB.CouchDB still seems to be a viable replacement for the BigTable backend to datastore. A GQL parser will have to be written to interface with...
View Articlefeedclowd now in beta
I just released my project as a public beta, feedclowd It's a life aggregator were you can take all your feeds from all your social sites and combine them into one simple feed.
View Articlefeedclowd is now opensource
I've finally made the application that drives www.feedclowd.com to be open source.Here's the official announcement
View Articleis opensource really all that great for companies
So I released my feedclowd code as open source and I needed to pick license. The requirements I wanted in a license were this, you may use the source code but if you modify that source code you must...
View ArticleExperimenting
I ran across Smisk two days ago and though. "Hmm, someone should write a wsgi adaptor for that".Maybe an hour after I had that thought, I started working on one. It was pretty easy. Smisk's classes...
View Articleappengine vs twitter
So Glenn Franxman was opining this afternoon about how twitter is going to reach a point where they're going to grow to big and need to make money somehow. He said that they're either going to have to...
View Articleappengine vs twitter part 2
I've created a project in launchpad for Meow. You can now submit bug reports and feature requests into launchpad.If your a Django or Appengine hacker and want to help me out, simply branch the Meow...
View Articleiphone-3g
What can I say about the iphone 3g that hasn't been said. All I can say is I want one and I want to develop on it.The one thing that sold me was the true GPS support. This thing is going to herald in...
View ArticleTemplate Tag Caveat
In the Django template system. There is a small caveat that you need to recognize when developing your own template tags.When Django parses the Node tree it creates a template.Node instance for each...
View ArticleFun with APIs
So, you're looking for a job you say... Need to brush up on your knowledge set... I've got the tool for you!career_chooser.pyimporturllibimportreimportsysimportcgiAPI_KEY="USE YOUR...
View ArticleUnderstanding PSQL's MVCC
Understanding PSQL's MVCCPostgresSQL implements something called MVCC. Which alleviates the need for a Read-Lock in many cases. However when Glenn Franxman and I were trying to figure out how this...
View ArticleFind the number of days until next day of week
I've had to figure this out before and I forgot it. Here it is preserveddefdaysuntilnextdow(start,next):"""Determine how many days until the next Day of week start: The day of the week to start from...
View ArticlePDB and django.test.client
So you have a site in production and someone called you up that there is a bug on the site. Your template designer is trying to make a change to a template and the change is isn't showing up on the...
View ArticlePython Encodings and Unicode
I am sure there has been a number of explanations on Unicode and Python but I'm going to do a little write up for my own sake.Byte Streams VS Unicode ObjectsLet's start by defining what a string in...
View ArticleAnnouncing django-viewtools
Hi, I'm announcing a project I have called django-viewtoolsdjango-viewtools provides a management command to help in debugging and profiling viewsOverviewdjango-viewtools provides a number of...
View ArticleWhy REST?
PrefaceI have to say before you read this that I only have a theoritical understanding of how a web service benefits for being RESTful. Most of the topics I have explored are actually explained in Roy...
View ArticleBooks every self-taught computer scientist should read
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing...
View ArticleLearning Python Logging
The Python logging module is often a source of confusion with developers. Often, logging is the final thought in a project. When we are finishing up a project, the last thing we want to do is sift...
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Websocket Demo Results V2
tr { text-align: right; } HistoryRoughly about a month ago I wondered if Erlang's promise of massive concurrency was actually true. Rather than take everyone's word for it, inspired by Richard Jones'...
View ArticleEasy ETL with RDF and Python
So I have been tasked with optimizing our deployment pipeline. It is pretty obvious to us where the bottlenecks are but trying to be a data driven developer I needed to collect stats on the current...
View ArticleHydra lite
For the past year or so I have been working with JSON-LD and Hydra. I have been an internal zealot for using JSON-LD and Hydra for building hypermedia services but I have been met with indifference for...
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Linking in Hydra
Please note that in order to keep the JSON concise, I've omitted the JSON-LD @context and used standard naming.I had a conversation with a coworker about using JSON-LD and Hydra to add hypermedia to an...
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