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This is a header that goes on every page.Gmail + IMAP + iPhone = Win
November 01, 2007 at 07:44 AM | categories: Uncategorized | CommentSo, I've been using the POP gmail for a while now, since I've had my iPhone and it absolutely sucked because I'm subscribed to very active mailing lists such as wine-devel and gcc ones, and I had them automatically filed out of my inbox in Gmail... but when you use POP3 access you get everything in your inbox, so I was flooded with all this crap I didn't want to see on my iPhone and the iPhone has no sorting facilities.
I finally got IMAP for gmail today and it's AMAZING. It does all my tags and everything... They did it perfectly.
Props to the Gmail team.
BarCampBerlin Next Weekend
October 30, 2007 at 07:30 AM | categories: Uncategorized | Comment
So, I found out there is a BarCamp in Berlin coming up this weekend... And I decided to go. I want to present so I have to get my shit together. It seems like it will be a little more focused than the BarCampBlock in Palo Alto... So I'm not sure how a session on the impact of lolcats would go over. I don't think any other low level hackery would fly either.
This leaves me with a couple options. One of them includes iPhone stuff, such as setting up the llvm-gcc crosscompiler in Linux, maybe an intro to UIKit, or something else.
The other idea I have involves pylons. I'm pretty familiar with the basics, but I think it would be nice to shed some light that Rails and Django aren't the only MVC web frameworks out there.I really hope to get a more global perspective of what's going on while I'm there an meet a bunch of new people.
Hallo aus Osnabrück
October 29, 2007 at 08:06 AM | categories: Uncategorized | CommentSoo... I've been super busy for the last month or so. I drove across country without a hitch (aside from getting cut off and hit by a guy somewhere in the midwest, but he took responsibility). Then, I flew to Berlin, stayed there for 5 days, and stayed 4 days in Munich for Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest was amazing. So much good beer, good people, crazy people. It was cool.
Then I took the train to Osnabrück where I am studying now. It's been crazy. My German is terrible though, but everybody I live with speaks English. That's not helping me learn though, unfortunately. I'm also struggling to learn vocabulary.
The AI class I am taking is a bit difficult too. It's in Prolog. Prolog is not very fun. Not fun at all. I'd take lisp or scheme any day over prolog.
Osnabrück is very similar to Rochester as far as the weather goes so far. It's cloudy or rainy and cold and windy. I heard the winters don't get as harsh though, but it will still be rainy. I'm definitely not looking forward to the winters. We're really close to a lot of cool cities though like Münster and Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a really awesome city. All the buildings are old and kind of crooked. And the roads are really narrow. It's quite charming.
Pylons (ftw?)
August 23, 2007 at 02:38 PM | categories: Uncategorized | CommentAfter doing a lot more research on frameworks, playing around with SQLAlchemy, etc., I have decided for now on Pylons.
Here's why:
- SQLAlchemy rocks. Ran through the tutorial, looked through the docs. It's very well documented. The tutorial was advanced and I like that. It even went through complex joins and such. You can make it work with a schema. It's more complex than ActiveRecord for doing simple things, but it's easier to do the more complex things without writing your own SQL statements. It's also nice when you use it in interactive mode how it spits out the SQL it sends to the server. Great for tweaking and debugging. You can use your own naming conventions too (which can be bad and good).
- The debugger seems great. I played around with it a little bit. Basically, when you get an error, you can click on the page and execute any command wherever you want on the call stack. It updates all ajaxy too. Very cool. Just make sure you don't run it as root by accident :D
- WSGI is seemingly pretty awesome. Middleware looks like it has a lot of potential. Seems like all the momentum is headed towards WSGI.
- Isn't all about the CRUD. I'm kind of sick of those slight of hand demos with Rails and such where it shows you how to make a blog in 20 seconds using scaffolding.
- It's lightweight, moreso than TG.
- The docs explain not just how to do things but why as well, so you actually learn the underlying concepts.
- Seems like there's a lot of new development, and I'm hoping that once I get going I'll be able to contribute to the project as well. Also, TG2 is going to be using pylons which means the number of people using it will grow significantly once TG2 is released. This is good for everybody because the middleware created, bug fixes, new API features will benefit all. It's nice seeing open source projects converge rather than fork for once.
Color Management Nightmare
August 20, 2007 at 02:54 PM | categories: Color, Uncategorized | CommentSo I've been working on a new layout for my blog, using PNGs and divs and such. Everything was going along nice and well, until I tried viewing the page in Safari . Bamf, all my colors were off.
I think the web needs a replacement for PNGs, or at least PNGs with embedded color profiles.
My monitor is calibrated and everything.
Take a look:
This isn't really a problem with either browser per se, but just an issue with color management in general. I think I will have to stick to jpegs for this because you can embed an ICC profile in them.
Updates to come with solutions.
[edit] Apparently, it has a third appearance in IE. So, it seems like the answers are headed towards PNGs are broken. It might be time for a new image format that contains an alpha channel.
New Theme
August 20, 2007 at 01:51 PM | categories: Uncategorized | CommentI'm updating my theme. Ugly things will be happening in the next couple days. Please bear with me.
BarCampBlock
August 19, 2007 at 03:19 AM | categories: Uncategorized | CommentSo good. Will elaborate tomorrow when not in state that is in now. :)
Lots of cool people, lots of good sessions, and lots of crappy demos at DemoCamp. Oh, lots of free drinks as well. *sigh* Sometimes being a geek has it's advantages.
Trac and Subversion
August 04, 2007 at 12:10 AM | categories: Uncategorized | Comment
I finally got around to setting up trac on my server. While I was at it I upgraded to Python 2.5 and got mod_wsgi to work with trac.
Moved my subversion base to svn.lolrus.org and my trac base to trac.lolrus.org.
Anyways, I've been working on a little project lately which is a vectorized implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
You can check it out here
Magsafe, iPods, Cars, and Vinyl
April 06, 2007 at 01:24 AM | categories: Uncategorized | CommentSo... today started pretty good. Accomplished some great stuff at work. I got some stuff threaded in a half a day that my boss thought would take weeks. It scales alright too :). n-threads. word.
That's about all the good in my day. The macbook pro I use for work's power connecter (known as a magsafe connector) kinda stopped working and then melted and sparked a bit. They were nice enough at the Apple store to replace it even though the MBP was out of warranty (I don't think they really want to put up a fuss about something that could have started a fire)... and that was sweet because I don't have to file an expense report and it's a good story.
It gets worse. After I left the Apple Store I come back to my car and guess what? My window is smashed in and my iPod and GPS is gone. This is a really nice mall too. Like 5:00 pm. How random is that? It sucks a lot. Especially because I have glass all inside my car and no drivers side window.... and no iPod. Luckily I have a few CD's I can throw in my car.
Yeah that sucks. I got my new Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah album on vinyl today. I'm a little disappointed the first song, Some Loud Thunder, still sounds like not so good. Half of the album is solid. There's some songs that are just mediocre too. Am I disappointed? A little bit. The album was hella expensive because it had to be imported.
At least tomorrow is Friday.
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