Watch 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...
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