May 18, 2008
I started writing this about a month ago, and then was in a serious car accident. Fortunately it was more serious for the car than for me and my girlfriend, but the disruption to my life has been sufficient to delay this blog post. Apologies.
It's been a while since I've written anything here - I've been swamped in projects, and of course the project list has been changing from week to week - it's just how I operate.
Dec. 27, 2007
My current projects and how I feel about them:
My band, my beloved band. I feel really good about the music, about the band - but still gigs elude. I had one almost lined up, but it didn't fit with our drummer's schedule. Here's hoping that '08 will bring many live shows and local success.
I'm also making a little ambient electronica on the side - haven't come up with a good name to release it under though.
I recently made the happy discovery that some Radio Shack stores sell electronic parts from Parallax ...
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Nov. 28, 2007
I work on a high-traffic Django site at work, and desipite the rigorous testing and near-mathematical-perfection of my code, I occasionally receive exception notices. Usually the default Django exception email is enough to quickly track down the problem, but sometimes things are less clear. I find the Django 'debug mode' error pages extremely useful, given that they show context around the offending line and local variable values for every frame in the traceback. The standard exception email sent to site admins when running in production mode, however, is far, far less useful.
Fortunately, Django is pretty simple. There's not ...
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Nov. 19, 2007
I've been quiet in this space due to working extra hours finishing up the django rewrite of Revver.com, and songwriting and practicing with MA:46. Now that Revver's site has launched, I have a little more time to spend writing articles and playing classic video games (System Shock 2, respect). Another thing that's taking up some of my free time is a redesign of Neoglam.com - in fact more than just a redesign, a reimplementation.
Working with Django so intensely at my day job, I realized that it would be easier for me to write the ...
Aug. 19, 2007
I believe that the Mac is well-suited to two types of people at nearly opposite ends of the user spectrum. First, the user who doesn't care to serve the computer nor optimize their use thereof (the "newbie" - a term used whether the user is new to computers or not). The second is the nearly hardcore power user - nearly hardcore because despite that they can handily fling text and files around without touching the mouse and spend considerable time typing commands into a shell (probably even programming), they for some reason cannot or do not wish to make the plunge ...
June 9, 2007
4:56 - (the daniel) but a good programming exercise and a cute conceit, to have your own robot butler 4:57 - (Brian Kerr) yeah, that's great, always fun to do something a little more ... algorithmic and a little less login screen 5:00 - (the daniel) (i like that as a euphemism for project with necessary web ui crap attached) 5:00 - (the daniel) loginscreen project
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Off to .eu - see you in a couple weeks, internub. We will be full of crepes and pasta upon our return.