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- Trying out Django-cms
I tried installing django-cms, an open-source project from Switzerland’s company Divio. It is a content management system based on the web framework Django and is written in Python. Among the interesting features of DjangoCms (besides the fact that it is based on django, which I happen to have fun with in most of my programming […]
- The power of django’s Q objects
I’ve been spending some time today doing research on how to best use django’s Q objects. Then I did a bit of testing myself and decided to put this whole thing together for future’s sake, you know, for the time when I’ll find myself lost and in need some coding recipe. First things first: the […]
- DjangoCon Europe 2010
DjangoCon returned for its second year in Europe; the first as a wholly community-supported conference. The conference website contains a lot of info and interesting links (even an iPhone app), but in my opinion the coolest thing is the freely available videos of the conference! >>>
- Django debug toolbar
Django Debug Toolbar 0.8 from Idan Gazit on Vimeo. This is just an amazingly useful application you might want to add to your django development tools. Installation is a breeze: $ easy_install django-debug-toolbar … Then you need to add some parameters to your settings.py, as explained here. It’s likely that you don’t want the debug-toolbar […]
- Links to CS 193P iPhone dev lectures
For some reasons the excellent slides and other course materials that used to be available on the CS 193P iPhone Application Development website have been removed.. Too bad: download all the 2009 course (including videos) from here, or check out an exact copy of the site here. If you’re after the 2010 material, there’re plenty […]
- Processing.js, iProcessing: javascript does everything for you!
First off – check out how cool is the little game below. It’s been implemented with processing.js, a port of the famous processing library that works in your browser only through javascript (the original processing is java-based). What is processing? The Processing language was created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in […]
- Python debugging and Textmate
I’ve never realized that among the many things Textmate does well there’s also python debugging. Well, to be precise Textmate doesn’t do much as it just relies on python’s default debugger, called PDB. Ok, probably PDB isn’t the cutting edge debugger you’re looking for, but it’s worth a try imho. Nothing to install in order […]
- MacBook: getting the backlight to behave the way you want
Ever wanted to switch the keyboard’s backlight on even if there’s daylight? Or to have it dance at the rhythm of your itunes playlist? These applications will solve your problems : and they’re all free! LabTick : allows you to turn on your PowerBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro’s illuminated keyboard in the daylight. iSpazz: plugin […]
- A bookmarklet for searching delicious
This has been long overdue for me. A way to quickly search delicious.com without relying on third-party apps (which often you have to pay for). And it’s got to be super simple too: something like a bookmarklet that you click on and then takes you there. Just one of those things you never have the […]
- Pyglet: multimedia library for python
UPDATE 30/03/1: Just realized that unfortunately pyglet doesn’t play well with the latest 64bit architecture of oSX. A real shame, as this obviously breaks Pyglet’s famed run-anywhere feature. There are reasons to think that the next version will fix this problem (check out this thread for more info).. but for the moment, I guess that […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
