Posted by:
Cal Evans
on 03/13/2010
Dear Reader, I’m sitting here in a session at DrupalCamp Nashville on the Vandy campus. The day has been great and the Nashville Drupelars should be commended for running such a great camp. From a conference organizer PoV, this camp has run smoothly. The Wi-Fi is rock solid, the sessions start on time and the [...]
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Posted by:
Aaron Gustafson
on 03/13/2010
A List Apart: Issue 302
Format wars: HTML5 vs. Flash, ePub HTML vs. proprietary technologies.
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Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 03/12/2010
A common question I get during Tapestry training sessions is: Why can't Tapestry reload my services as well as my pages and components?. It does seem odd that I talk about how agile Tapestry is, with the live class reloading, and how nicely OO it is, what with services ... but when you move common logic to a service, you lose the agility because services do not live reload.
This came up yet again, during my latest training session, in London.
I've considered this before, and I've... more »
Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 03/11/2010
I think I've come to understand why Eclipse leaves me always feeling a bit frustrated. Yes, it is more stable than IDEA, uses less memory, has some documentation, and a lot of acceptance ... but even so, it just leaves me cold (and I was an early adopter, signed up for the beta way back in 2000!).
Keystrokes are not modal
The fact that I can type a common keystroke into an Eclipse window and not know what it will do is painful. How a keystroke is interpreted depends on what... more »
Posted by:
Aaron Gustafson
on 03/11/2010
Aaron Gustafson posted a photo:
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Posted by:
Bob Ippolito
on 03/11/2010
I gave a talk at PyCon 2010 in Atlanta last month called Analysis: The Other Kind of Testing (video). It's a very simple overview of techniques such as split testing (AB testing) and a call to action to improve django-lean.
Atlanta was a fantastic location for PyCon 2010, and I look forward to returning next year. Hopefully if I give another talk I'll be able to put a little more time into it :)
As per usual, I've been incredibly lazy about updating this blog, so you're much... more »
Posted by:
Bob Ippolito
on 03/10/2010
simplejson (documentation) is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON (RFC 4627) encoder/decoder for Python 2.5+. It is pure Python code with no dependencies, but features an optional C extension for speed-ups.
simplejson 2.1.0 is a major update with several new features and bug-fixes:
Decimal serialization officially supported for encoding with use_decimal=True. For encoding this encodes Decimal objects and for decoding it implies parse_float=Decimal
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Posted by:
Aaron Gustafson
on 03/10/2010
Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology
The Onion... brilliant as always.
Using Git for SVN Repositories Workflow
Great overview of using Git with standard SVN repository layouts.
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Posted by:
Howard Lewis Ship
on 03/08/2010
You might call it petty, you might call it vain, but I've aspired to be recognized as a Java Champion for the last couple of years. The process by which you are selected for this is a bit secretive, but I've finally gotten the nod and joined the roster.
My larger goal for Tapestry has always been to create a web application platform so compelling that it would draw developers to the Java programming language, just to be able to use it. Of course, that's not so much a goal as it is... more »
Posted by:
Sean Kane
on 03/08/2010
The evening light today was perfect for shooting some tree blossoms and the busy bees working on them. I was using my 28-135 lens for these shots which means I had to crop quite a bit to get the right detail. The real challenge here was sharp focus with the quickly moving bees. For that, I used live view, zoomed in to quickly manually focus on the bees while somewhat still. Once they started to move, I let the rapid-fire shutter go. This collection is out of about 30 total... more »
Posted by:
Cal Evans
on 03/07/2010
Dear Reader, The dust has settled, the swag-bag has been rifled through and the drink tickets have all been exchanged for various combinations of kool-aid and vodka. Since I can’t find any of my Microsoft friends who can can me into the beta for the new Microsoft Courier, I had to go old school and take [...]
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Posted by:
Cal Evans
on 03/06/2010
Dear Reader, Today was the day! Podcamp Nashville 2010, downtown Nashville at the Cadillac Ranch. As always with the Nashville camps, overall it was great experience. The sessions were quality with speakers like Mitch Canter and Kate Gallagher. It was great to meet some new friends and catch up with some old [...]
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Posted by:
Aaron Gustafson
on 03/05/2010
Chattanooga Food Critics
A relatively new site with a decent take on our fair city's dining options.
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Posted by:
Sean Kane
on 03/05/2010
While doing some data-mining this evening at work, I thought I would try to complete some of my lagging Daily Shoot assignments. The time during query execution is only so entertaining so why not fill it with something more fun. I don’t own a fancy flash, so the only lighting help I can get is from the sun, room lighting or my trusty pop-up flash. This evening I thought I would try to make my pop-up flash shots look good instead of washed out.
Precarious Pushpin – this... more »
Posted by:
Sean Kane
on 03/04/2010
Today the light shining through the window blinds cast a perfect striped pattern on the lamp shade for the Daily Shoot assignment. I think this is made more interesting by the horizontal blind pattern and perceived inversion of the shadow pattern on the blinds.
#ds109 – Striped patterns have a natural pattern that catches the eye. Find some stripes today and make a photo.
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Posted by:
Greg Wilkins
on 03/01/2010
The websocket protocol has been touted as a great leap forward for bidirectional web applications like chat, promising a new era of simple comet applications. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a silver bullet and this blog will walk through a simple chat room to see where websocket does and does not help with comet applications. In a websocket world, there is even more need for frameworks like cometd.Simple ChatA chat is the "helloworld" application of web-2.0 and a simple... more »
Posted by:
Sean Kane
on 02/28/2010
Today I took the kids out into Sanborn Park in the Santa Cruz mountains. The redwood forest is always a spectacular place to visit. This was my first time in this particular area. Below is small collection of photos from the morning, starting with the log cabin type hostel.
I love the look of this building. The fact that moss grows absolutely everywhere out here adds tons of character to everything. It was a challenge to capture things with just the right amount of light since... more »
Posted by:
Sean Kane
on 02/28/2010
Downtown San Jose, taken on the same trip as yesterday’s golden clouds. The building was lit up wonderfully from the clouds and sun from the east with the nice pastel colors on the clouds to the north. The negative space adds to this one so I am using this as my Daily Shoot submission for DS102.
#ds102 - Negative space can be just as important to a composition as your primary subject. Explore negative space in a photograph.
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Posted by:
Sean Kane
on 02/27/2010
One more shot today of the spectacular sunsets we’ve had lately. This one was taken as a passenger in a car barreling down the freeway. It was also taken out of the driver’s side window, which was a shot only available for moments before it had a chain link fence in the way.
Tomorrow, I’m hoping sunrise will be good and I can be setup for it!
There is a tiny bit of horizon, so I’m stretching for meeting this assignment today.
#ds104 – The horizon can... more »
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