@heckj- heckj: RT @bethrobson: Very proud to be a WA state resident! WA state senate just passed same-sex marriage bill. #LGBT
- heckj: @danimal word
- heckj: @alexvollmer :-(
- heckj: @BrianTRice where are u tonight with the #dartlang stuff?
- heckj: good night tonight - catching up with a bunch of @xcoders friends I haven't seen since before the new year
- pinboard links
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/161881325429727232/photo/1) January 24, 2012
- Largest Solar Radiation Storm in Six Years Headed Toward Earth- Bloomberg January 24, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/159742603926056960/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/johnderosa/status/159659196428726272/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- A brief history of personal computing platforms. on Twitpic January 14, 2012
- PyPy Status Blog: Transactional Memory (II) January 14, 2012
- Creation of iPxe Bootable USB | AT@ Blogger January 11, 2012
- The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books January 6, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/152807856356331520/photo/1) December 30, 2011
- Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide | The Carbon Emitter December 24, 2011
Monthly Archives: November 2006
The wisdom of DEBUG=False when loading LOTS of data.
For a site that I’ve been working on, I’ve enabled a load up of data all in a python script. Darned handy. The magic method that does all that nice reseting bits is: from django.core import management from django.contrib.auth.create_superuser import … Continue reading
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Django book – chapters 5 and 6 now available
Two more chapters are live on DjangoBook: Chapter 5: Interacting with a database: Models and Chapter 6: The Django admin site The comment system is interesting, and I think it’s great for the authors – but while it’s cool, I’m … Continue reading
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while I’ve been sleeping…
While I’ve been sleeping, it’s clearly been a good day for Tech News… Sun announced open sourcing java, a move that will have slow (I think) implications – if any at all at this point. I honestly wonder if they … Continue reading
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stayed home sick
I’m really hoping I didn’t pass anything along to my fellow mind campers – but I just absolutely crashed last night and stayed home sick today. I’m blaming it all on Karen (of course), as she’s been under the weather … Continue reading
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Eric’s PhotoBooth Hack
Karen and I headed back to MindCamp this morning for the morning breakfast, chat, and closing sessions. While we were lurking about, Eric showed me his PhotoBooth hack… with evidence! (yeah, that’s karen in the background getting in her game … Continue reading
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Mind Camp 3.0
Mind Camp 3.0 started at Noon today with the usual confusion and chaos of any sort of self-organizing conference. The past two conferences, I’ve stayed through the night – but today Karen wasn’t feeling very well and I thought it … Continue reading
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Good XCoder meeting tonight
We had a good turnout at the XCoder’s tonight – 21 folks. Not a record, really – but definitely the near-term high water mark for attendance. Andrew did a run-down of that latest fab-craze, Ruby on Rails – a very … Continue reading
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And the rain came down…
It’s the first really big rain of the “winter” season here – it’s been steadily dumping for over 24 hours now, and it should continue to dump through tomorrow at least. According to the specs, we’ve had over 3 inches … Continue reading
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