Nov 20, 2002
I finished A Song of Stone last night. Frank was right, this book is to be avoided – not because it isn’t well-written, but because the plot progression is just so damned depressing. The book starts off relatively upbeat where we find the narrator, his lover and their servants in the process of … Read more
Nov 20, 2002
Following Vic’s example I have added comments thanks to Haloscan. However, I have chosen to use the bare minimum Javascript so there is no dynamic displaying of the total number of comments as of yet.
Nov 19, 2002
Just when you thought she was whore enough, Mattel is releasing a My Scene Barbie aimed at the pre-teen market. This new Barbie features “crop-tops, low-riding jeans and bare midriffs” to appeal to girls who are ditching their Barbies after they turn 7 due to the influence of … Read more
Nov 16, 2002
Today’s Globe & Mail has an interesting article about the sixteen known Canadian WWI veterans. The paper published thirteen names and stories last week, but three more have recently been added. Not suprisingly, the youngest of these sixteen is 102 years old.
Nov 15, 2002
I’ve received a few hits from people searching for “xpi uninstall” or “mozilla xpi uninstall” from Google. As it turns out, my weblog is #1 for those keywords, even outranking the Mozilla troubleshooting FAQ. As a follow-up to this post, I … Read more
I’ve sometimes used feature branches and have never had the issues Martin Fowler talks about in this article. I can see how they would arise, but I suppose I’ve either employed continuous integration techniques or just been very lucky. Fowler writes of two methods in which feature branches can be tamed — promiscuous integration and … Read more
I generally avoid the practice these decorators are trying to ease, namely type-checking on methods, but it’s useful to have around.
“Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike.” Some great-looking charts, but slow and reliant on Flash.
Aviary is an online suite of free tools for image and sound editing. Tools are split into Phoenix (an image editor), Falcon (a desktop/window grabber), Peacock (an effects editor), Myna (an audio remixer), Raven (a vector editor) and Toucan (a colour swatch editor).
This page details how MongoKit can be integrated into Pylons’ configuration.