January 2009
71 posts
there is a word echoing round the halls at work, that word is “pub”
still doesn’t like adding help text to models in Django, Feels like it should be in admin.py
wherever @rossbruniges goes whoops and cheers spring up. Celebrity has it’s down sides obviously
500 lines, 50% of it tests and 20% of it comments. Today has been a day of Proper Code™.
roll on substandards I say
cron code in latest GAE SDK http://tinyurl.com/colcuy
JSON pickle (http://code.google.com/p/jsonpickle) looks like it might be what I was looking for
OH: “Browsing Experience Need”. Nuff said.
dealing with rubbish XML. For what is meant to be a simple format the number of ways you can bugger it up is pretty impressive
at least if you’re going to mention slightly incorrect domain names in your ads you should do it properly: http://www.comparethemeerkat.com
off to pay my tax bill
notes that @intranation keeps cropping up on http://www.last.fm/group/Hack+Day
ha! ASP.NET postback doesn’t have to use POST. Massive HTTP fail http://tinyurl.com/atmq4t
ahh, it’s @crosby http://www.last.fm/group/Hack+Day
can’t find a NewsML parser in Python. Anyone know of one before I start writing code?
is doing a bit of maths this morning. Good start to the week
Ruby Sadist suite was just what I was looking for http://ruby.sadi.st/
wonders if their is an equivalent to pylint (handy Python code convention checker) for Ruby?
jobs requiring 5 years of Django experience make me chuckle
looking for recommendations for a USB external hard drive. Minimum 500GB. Any good/bad experiences?
back into the swing of blogging recently. Another new post this time on Ant scripts; http://tinyurl.com/cl4jlb
last.fm android application out, installing on G1 via market place
RT @intranation This looks bad http://tinyurl.com/dkblxn (I used to organise gigs, that’s frankly wrong in so many ways)
is ignoring the shocking musical tastes of @rossbruniges and @intranation and listening to Smashing Pumpkin covers by the likes of 32 Leaves
is blocking the “musical” tastes of @NeilCrosby from his mind and suggests you do the same
Most of the spotify backend is written in Python. Cool.
the office appears to have been dragged back in time on a 90s music trip. And not in a good way.
Missed train by no more than 10 seconds. But my girlfriend is wonderful. Blames @RossC0 for the train. Bought myself a book to make up 4 it
two screened laptop? er http://tinyurl.com/4j9bd7
Slumdog Millionaire was brilliant. Good to see it in for lots of Oscars. Especially the soundtrack ones.
found the Whistler cover of All Apologies on Spotify! Takes me back to a gig at the long gone Riverside in Newcastle nearly 10 years ago
“Barck, Barek, Barak, Barrack, Barrak, Obma, Barack” just some of the keywords from http://whitehouse.gov
Joost coverage pretty good.
is listening to Sleeper and ignoring the heathen in the office who insulted them
Django testing slides from last nights DJUGL up on slideshare. http://tinyurl.com/8f6jau
They don’t appear to be able to couple the trains together. Been sat in cambridge for 25 minutes now. On a train ramming into another one
Talk at djugl done. convincing people to write tests for their code suprisingly hard. Only a third of people work on django proffessionally
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wonders who is going to be around for DJUGL tonight?
OH “good weekend?” “Yes, I spent it polishing my greenhouse. That’s not a euphemism.”
Pie (real @darrenf certified pie) followed by cinema tonight. Productive and enjoyable sunday.
correction. last tweet about twitter form example was from @woodss. Suitably chastised
nifty use for twitter for auto filling forms from @swoo http://tinyurl.com/9k553u
notes that Edge Rails now quotes JSON keys properly. http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0bed5bdb213ea68e2f167ac4f61f698f37cf2d69
think I’ll listen to some Nick Drake to cheer me up
something in Django 1.1 that will make me update; faster tests - http://tinyurl.com/8nxen4
RT @thinkingdigital shiny new video about last years Thinking Digital - http://tinyurl.com/9nvffb
wonders if App Engine is going to get XMPP? http://tinyurl.com/76l2u6
wow, Quake Live looks awesome
well, that was fun. Today is likely to be less productive than yesterday, but at least it will end with beer.