Monthly Archives: August 2006

A subtle django performance hit

Wow – I’m really glad I learned about this performance hit on the Django list today. Turns out that in the process of attempting to give back from really nice error messages from the default AddManipulator’s in Django 0.95, it … Continue reading

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Is this real?

Good lord, I’ve got to wonder if this is real? Testimony that a guy was hired to “rig the elections” with voting machines? It sure sounds like legitimate testimony, but there hasn’t been anything in the major news outlets. You’d … Continue reading

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Seattle Mind Camp 3.0

Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 – coming this November…

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Michael – For the record

You had a good time putting one back at Zeitgeist. See – here you are with a few of your favorite thugs! (sorry it took so long to post)

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WORD

As seen on the Maven2 user’s mailing list: Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe And yes, that means I “get” to deal with VSS upon occasion.

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How to write unmaintainable code

Ah, this is a brilliant bit of work: How to write unmaintainable code (and yes, it’s a commentary on what NOT to do when coding…)

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Converting from Django 0.91 to Django 0.95

In the 0.95 release code, the model valdiation logic can be a little shakey. In particular, I ran into this traceback today while doing a little code conversion: Traceback (most recent call last): File “manage.py”, line 11, in ? execute_manager(settings) … Continue reading

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The Peace War, by Vernor Vinge

I hadn’t read much of anything by Vernor Vinge until just recently, but man – I’ve sure been hearing the name about. When I was last in Queen Anne Avenue Books, I just went ahead and picked up a few … Continue reading

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teh suck for rails – software security

Wow – this is a beautifully detailed example of the security hole that existed in Rails version 1.1.4. I live more in the Django world, but I wouldn’t swear to anyone that similiar holes couldn’t be found there. Jeez, I … Continue reading

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The pacific northwest is good for MacOS X

Maybe it’s the weather, or the water, or .. hell, I dunno. But I think Chris has it pretty nailed when he called out the huge number of indie and professional mac programmers in the Seattle area in his WWDC … Continue reading

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