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Author: Rick Hurst
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Running Google App Engine SDK on OSX lion
OSX Lion comes with python 2.7 as default. Although App Engine will run on 2.7, it is safer to develop on the version of python that…
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Left the circus, going to work in the Potato field
I’ve mused a few times on this blog about the relative merits of full-time and freelance and what would convince me to go back into a…
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Lost network interfaces in virtual machine
I was having a confusing issue where after moving an ubuntu virtualbox virtual machine I was losing the virtual network adapters (i’m running one on NAT…
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Get a list of attributes for a django object
For a queryset: For a single object instance:- Also for a single object instance – returns fields and values as a dict Iterate through the dict…
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Tell us about the browser wars grandpa!
After recently reading this blog post, I was reminiscing about the circuitous route that got me into web development. I’ve given a brief account of this…
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Swoop Patagonia re-skin 3
Last night Dan Fairs pushed the latest version of the django powered Swoop Patagonia site live. The site has several new content management features created by…
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Test post from droptext
Just experimenting to see if it is possible to create a blog post on my new eatStatic based blog using droptext on my iphone. Under the…
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Object storage and retrieval in PHP part 2 – MongoDb
In part one, I talked about how to save and retrieve a PHP object instance using JSON files, and in this post I talk about the…
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Object storage and retrieval in PHP part 1 – JSON files
I mentioned in my post about eatStatic that I was using JSON files for storage of objects and arrays, but hoped to make it switchable to…
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Site building workflow challenges – keeping HTML in a database
I was reminded to today of one of my pet hates – coordinating a site build, or a site rebuild when the CMS you are using…
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Introducing eatStatic blog engine
Recently I ported this blog from an ancient version of wordpress to my own simple blog engine, which uses my PHP5 micro-framework, “eatStatic”. I use the…
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Watershed 2011 rebuild
Last night the new version of the watershed website was pushed live. I had the pleasure of being one of many people involved in this project,…