May 2009
37 posts
Doug Hellmann: PyMOTW: json →
Complicated Django designs →
i love Django, don’t get me wrong. but I sometimes feel like it promotes quite a high coupling between Django itself and the logic of you application. This is not bad if you want your application to…
“Two men in a Smart = Homosexuals !!!”
– Manuel, drunk at Ixelles (via wtfbrussels)
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Two happy men in a pub
We definetly have different styles… but we both love our ale!!!!!
I took (well Bea took mine) both pictures in or last visit to London… I cannot believe I would be missing the U.K. his much!!!
WatchI miss playing rugby sooooo much
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To be confirmed but...
Is too be confirmed, but Bea and I will go hiking to the Alps next weekend and will stay here:
Photo from *themobius The mountain we are visiting is the one where you can find the Pix Gloria. Which from Wikipedia:
The Piz Gloria restaurant originated in the Ian Fleming James Bond novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963),wherein the hideout of the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is Piz...
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Really?!?!?!
Do you guys remember the blog post related with the turn-off menu of Window Vista? That blog post just describes one of the biggest problems of big companies…. and my current employer has the same exact problem.
We have been working on a consultancy that was going to determine the migration process of the company to a new platform. This process is going to take around 1 year or 2 with the...
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WTF!!!!!
You might remember that I said that two lesbians killed themselves in the hotel we booked in London?? Well I know why, I just saw the room…. Where is the knife? I need to cut my veins
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WatchReally??
Scaling Django →
Great presentation to read. The slides are obviouly not as good as the presentation, but is worth taking a look at them.
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A DRM Dissertation →
Great read, interesting and definitely in my way of thinking.
Event handling in Python revisited →
In my last post I gave na example of hoe to use events in python. After using such a way for some time I have realized that is not very pythonic. The problem is that you end up writing a lot of…
..remember not to eat too much chocolate..
wtfbrussels:
BRUSSELS — The Belgian bodybuilding championship was canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.
A doping official said bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.
“I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again,” doping official Hans Cooman said Monday.
Twenty bodybuilders were...
Rapid Development with Python, Django, and Google... →
Very interesting talk:
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Londons Hotel
Bea and I are going to go to London for this coming belgian bank holiday. Checking in the internet about the hotel she just booked we found this:
Two dead after hotel chemical alert
May 3, 2009
Two people have been found dead in a hotel room after a chemical incident, emergency services said.
Police and fire services were called to the Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park, north London just...
Django models in their own modules →
I really like django, but it has a “feature” that annoys me quite a lot. When working with django you have to put all your models in the models.py module. Although this might be good when you have…
Shorthand for long simple ifs in Python →
As more than one knows (everyone?) Python does not have switch statements… For me is not a big deal, except when I have to write very simple long if statements. If statements can do the job of most…
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European Commission OSS Strategy Draft, Mar 2009 →
The draft of the document being write, it is pretty clear that Microsoft “donates” money…. You can see the corrections and remarks in different colours in the draft.
Event handlers in Python →
I am a very big fan of event handlers in APIs. I believe that they add a great way to extend and API without the needs to fork it or modify any of its code (this is my most love feature from Boo’s…
Working with Bazaar →
Don’t get me wrong, I love Bazaar. I just started working iwth it a couple of days and I love the fact that I can work of-line (or behind a proxy I have not control) and later commit from my local…
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Moving a Mattress
wtfbrussels:
The task
Be able to mode an IKEA mattress from point A to point B without the help of a van.
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The solution
The following was done:
Borrow two trollies from GB:
Get the mattress out of the house and get it on the trolleys and walk in the middle of the night to point B.
Place the mattress in a garage ‘til the next day when it was moved to the...
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“Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest...”
– According to an email sent to developers of iPhone apps. This is yet an other proof of how bad are iPhone developers treated.
Edited: I forgot to say that they have to pay a 99$ fee if they want to debug their apps agaist 3.0
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New Tees!!!!!!
I just bough the following:
Eight Legged Cats Have Cool Names
Ode to Joy
The Last Piece
Dark Side of the Garden
Nuts!
I fucking love Threadless
WTFB tour
wtfbrussels:
BERLIN 1-3.5.09
The task
Complete > 1600 km in less than three days, visit Berlin, drink German beer and get back to Brusels
The trip
Left Brussels around 11:30
GPS (do NOT by a Garmin) broke.
Got lost in Ahmen (there are two of those in Germany.
Met Manuel at Berlin and went to a very alternative club in Berlin
Had beer and sausage for breakfast with ex-con
Drank for...
Keratin ORM - Manuel was right →
Hi,
Time for another update on the progress of my ORM development aka. “Reimplementing Manu’s work with better syntax (and spelling)”.
Lot’s of bugs fixed still more to go. Currently separating…