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Entries from July 2006

Going to Hostingcon 2006

July 12th, 2006 · No Comments

As a last minute opportunity, I’m going to attend HostingCon 2006. My boss can’t make it, so I’ll attend in his place.
This is a nice opportunity, since it will be the first time I’ve ever attended a conference with the explicit instruction to “make contacts and develop relationships with __________ vendors.” I’ve never even […]

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Tags: Hosting

Speedy Django Development

July 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments

As I’ve mentioned before, I am building my own web store using Django. The coding is going extremely quickly, thanks to the excellence of the framework.
I find myself marvelling at how quickly and simply various elements come together, especially when I contrast this to my previous experience doing the same thing with Java for […]

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Tags: Languages · Django · Python · Java

The best python url_join routine ever

July 6th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I don’t know how many times I’ve had to write a function to safely join url path components.

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Tags: Open Source · Python

Sqlite3 made Safari Crash

July 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

Short story: upgrading SQLITE3 makes Safari crash in OSX.
Using Sqlite on several systems recently, I decided to upgrade the installed Sqlite on my Macbook Pro. Otherwise I kept running into version incompatibility problems between the Linux systems and my Mac.
Compiling was easy enough, but by habit before I installed the new libraries, I made […]

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Tags: Libraries · Macintosh