I am working on a project that is using Django. We have decided to use ‘South’ which is a migration framework which tries to do for django what rails has out of the box. This is the first posting of…
Schedules Schmedules….
Lovely article about schedules…. Here His comment about two work days is useful. but I can’t help feeling that is problematic. 1) managers seeing their creatives drifting in at noon when ‘I have been at my desk since seven AM…
Evidence of Adhocracy?
I really like open source, it gives clients comfort, developers solid foundations and end users never need to know about it. Why should they care! Today, being the thick headed person that I am, I realise in my gut, what…
SoundCloud: Twitter vs. Facebook
I was recently introduced to SoundCloud, specifically, through the music of NathanQ Now, while listening to the interesting dance beats of NathanQ, I also noticed the UI of the site. In doing so, I realised it was a nice implementation…
Amazing Languages – Broken Promises
Today, a friend linked me to this it is an scheme environment with extensions. It says it wants to be an environment for musicians and graphic artists to use for performance coding. There is an example here which is beautiful,…
Lost in the desert of freedom
In this time of frameworks and development tools, we rarely start from scratch. There is always some prescribed structure in place when we start a new project. But, when there isn’t, we realise how much that structure leads us. I…
Microsoft Live Spaces, Metaweblog compliant, almost
Well, it IS microsoft after all. I have spent this morning writing code to use the Metaweblog api access to Microsoft Live Spaces. The problem is, that the api requires a field called BLOG_ID. But, there is no way to…
Sometimes I could cry.
I have been working recently on a project I started about 2 years ago, and which has subsequently been through several sets of hands. The project involves recreating the functionality of a visual basic application as a web app in…
Don’t cross the BEAMS! or, RSPEC? where’s my data?
I am working on a project at the moment, using RSPEC. All was going swimmingly until I started using fixtures for some of the data. Once I did, some of the specs (not always the ones mentioning fixtures) started falling…
Bending sql to your will. Crossing an sql table with immediate data.
Well, you are probably wondering what prompted my last post about ‘sql ghettos’. And well you might. The incident that spawned the term happened over a year ago. But, I thought I should get my personal stand on the matter…