August 2009
16 posts
The best summary of interdept relationships ever
As provided by my coworker:
“Dad, Marketing won’t play with me!”
“Marketing, you have to play with Engineering.”
“I don’t wanna! They’re weird!”
The World's First Startup Wedding Registry →
This is sort of awesome.
A couple, launching a startup, is getting married. So instead of gifts in their registry, they’re asking for various forms of gift-funding, like “Feed an Engineer for a Day, $200.00”
I’ve added my flickr feed to this blog. So there will probably be an uptick in photos. But not by much—I don’t take all that many photos, honestly.
me: The last time I was in Barnes and Noble looking for a book, it was a Django book, and I found it over in the photography section.
curtis: Well, that should have been in the Self Help section.
all: (laughter)
me (internal): sigh.
Ignite Raleigh
I attended Ignite Raleigh this past Wednesday, and I thought I’d put up my thoughts on the event (yes, I know I’m doing this backward, but posting barcamp notes is far easier than writing an actual post).
IgniteRaleigh was pretty awesome. The talks ranged from fantastic to fairly dreadful, but all of them had something interesting to talk about. The top ones for me were Wayne...
BarCamp
I attended BarCamp this past Saturday, taking advantage of one of the few free moments this month that I had. Quite a lot of interesting stuff going on.
My notes, such as they are, are available here. I’m not sure how useful they are to someone who wasn’t there, but feel free to take a look.
Hacking Django to use Emails as Username
There’s a fair number of times you want to use email as a login when you’re designing a site as opposed to say, a username.
In django, you can get partway there by setting up a custom auth backend, say as shown here.
But that only goes so far.
The admin app (blessed though it may be) has its own ideas about usernames and authentication.
To deal with that, your best bet is...
Daring Fireball | Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary,... →
This is really ridiculous. Gruber goes into how a really good dictionary has been censored by Apple in order to be allowed in the app store. Yes, censored. A dictionary. And then they age blocked it for good measure.
In Gruber’s words:
Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day.