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BYOP Portland Photos

posted: March 11, 2008 @ 12:09 p.m. by xdissent

Be Your Own Pet in Portland last weekend.

Colons in URLs in Django

posted: February 18, 2008 @ 11:48 a.m. by xdissent

My first bug ticket for Django! Please just don’t use colons in your URLs even if this gets put into trunk. More headaches than it’s worth… which is nothing at all.

Sweet Jesus, It's Finally Here!

posted: February 18, 2008 @ 10:07 a.m. by xdissent

Model Inheritance makes its way into the QuerSet-Refactor branch of Django. Been waiting on this one for a year+!

Growl + Spaces

posted: February 17, 2008 @ 08:39 p.m. by xdissent

Awesome tip about Growl‘s behaviour in Spaces. Just made me a lot happier, anyway.

Shell Shortcuts (bash + mac compatible!)

posted: February 17, 2008 @ 06:06 p.m. by xdissent

Christer Edwards documents a few extremely handy bash shortcuts. I’ve found that most work out-of-the-box in Terminal.app for Leopard.

Decent XML-RPC for Django

posted: February 12, 2008 @ 03:24 p.m. by xdissent

Not a bad attempt at a standard, re-distributable XML-RPC implementation for Django. Probably going to use this for the MetaWeblog API

Python CSS Library

posted: February 12, 2008 @ 02:35 p.m. by xdissent

A CSS Library I’m using in my answer to Semantify

Concatenation Performance in Python

posted: February 11, 2008 @ 07:50 p.m. by xdissent

A look at the performance of different methods of joining strings together. I got curious about this when working on the blog tonight.

Quickly launch “Top Hit” in Spotlight

posted: February 11, 2008 @ 02:18 p.m. by xdissent

Mark Jaquith has a bad-ass shortcut. I use Quicksilver in Tiger but love Leopard’s new Spotlight behaviour. This brings me closer to consistency across both.

JeffCroft needs a new host

posted: February 11, 2008 @ 10:53 a.m. by xdissent

Just wanted to make a quick thumbnail to remind us that even the “big guys” have hosting issues.

Josh Eichorn's WebThumb API

posted: February 10, 2008 @ 12:00 a.m. by xdissent

It may be old news, but this service allows you to remotely grab screenshots of URL’s for free(ish).

Django URL snakebite

posted: February 10, 2008 @ 12:00 a.m. by xdissent

Jake Elliott comes through with a fix for a subtle Django gotcha. I’m using a lambda to create a new unbound comment form per request for this very page.