Coder’s Eye

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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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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Finding this technique took more time than I thought it should, so I thought I’d share a quick and simple music transcoding tip.Converting WMA to MP31) Get mplayer and lame installed.

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Yet another great use for Django is to make trivial the creation of shared tables & forms for internal projects.

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This weekend I wrote my first Google Checkout integration module.

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At work, I’m doing a bunch of data acquisition on various machines outside the firewall. I think I’ve hit on an absolutely great combination of Python technologies to do this in a really manageable and scalable manner.
The design constraints:

No long-running processes. These are heavily loaded boxes. The data acquisition will run via […]

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What is your most productive dash/break schedule? I mean, when you are at your peak “flow” level, or more likely when you are trying to evoke your I’ve been thinking about this and experimenting a bit lately. It is a tough one to optimize since there are so many variables involved.

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This is just a quick post to confirm that Django does indeed work perfectly on Rimuhosting with very little effort required to set up. It is fast, it connected to my Mysql db without a peep of a complaint, and it is making me a happy developer.
Setup details
I’m using Rimu’s “MiroVPS3″ plan. It […]

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Sometimes I have to remind myself why I am writing a brand-new shopping cart and product management system.

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Any programmer will tell you that one of the characteristics of really getting into a programming "flow" is that your mind is completely engaged.

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