Monthly Archives: April 2007

Joe’s theory of luck and randomness

In short – I’m buying a lottery ticket. While I know rationally that buying a lottery ticket is just taxes for people who aren’t good at math, recent events (and reading too many books lately) make me think that I’m … Continue reading

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This’ll be interesting…

Adobe is releasing the “goods” to Flex including “core ActionScript libraries ” under the Mozilla Public License. The overview on that page says that everything needed to run a little flashy goodness is available in the license. Now lets see … Continue reading

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Using OpenID with your Django site

In case you missed it on the Django lists, RSS feeds, and other good tidbits – Simon Willison posted about, and made available, code to enable pretty much any Django based site to take advantage of OpenID. He took a … Continue reading

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Congrats Andrew!

Congrats to Andrew who’s moving to Rogue Sheep! I’ve known a couple of the sheep for a while, and they’re great folk, doing some incredible work. Jobster is loosing someone in this exchange – no doubt about it. Congrats Andrew!

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Upgrading Django – AddManipulators and backwards incompatible changes

I was doing some upgrading of a Django site, getting rid of some of the pieces that are listed in the upcoming backwards-incompatible changes list. Learned some interesting tidbits… For one, the AddManipulators (being deprecated as things move to newforms … Continue reading

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Pulling for Tony

A few days ago, a friend of mine from Singingfish – and whom I’ve sailed with – took an incredibly nasty fall. A railing gave way at Shilshole somewhere, and he fell 15 feet to a concrete dock with the … Continue reading

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SearchKit on Late Night Cocoa

Late Night Cocoa 14 is out – Steve Harris gives a nice API overview of SearchKit, sort of a verbal overview of the API’s and how the functions tie together. Nice episode!

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Mac Hybrid Apps – DjangoKit

At C4 last year, Brent gave a talk on Hybrid apps – and then graciously redid the same talk for the XCoders. Along those lines, Paul Bissex wrote a short bit about DjangoKit today. Being a fan of that particular … Continue reading

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Calva Cafe – good fish, but still forming itself

I stopped by the newest Sushi joint on Queen Anne, Calva Cafe. Cited where everyone on Queen Anne is used to thinking of “Pats Coffee”. The fish there is excellent. The unagi, in particular, was really wonderful – and there … Continue reading

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