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Entries from December 2006

Django Formatter Mixin Class

December 27th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve always disliked having to write __repr__ methods for my classes. In Django, it is especially important, since the admin pages use that method to give you Python is moderately unusual in that it allows classes to have multiple inheritance.

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Tags: Tips · Django · Open Source · Python

The Coder Attitude From Both Sides

December 25th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve been living a split life for six months now.

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Tags: Planning

Simple, degradable Flash embedding using jQuery

December 24th, 2006 · 7 Comments

Now that I am doing professional web layouts for clients, I find myself appreciating the quick, easy, and well-documented jQuery library. I just don’t have time to hassle with Dojo and its size, widgets I don’t need, and messy documentation.

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Tags: Languages · Best Practices · Javascript