Archive | November, 2005

30 November 2005 ~ 6 Comments

Django vs. TurboGears

It seems that it is almost impossible to talk about one web framework (be it Django, TurboGears, or Ruby on Rails) without drawing some comparisons and talking about which one is best.
That is certainly the case when Ben pulls no punches in Django is Rails:
The Django Project kicks the living crap out of Turbo Gears [...]

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30 November 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Problems resolved

Hopfully this will be my last post related to my previously broken Django install.
As per Adrian’s suggestions (see comments), I looked for any .pyc files in the Django and removed them as follows:
metis# cd /usr/local/django/django_src/django
metis# find -name “*.pyc” | xargs rm
Python scripts get compiled into bytecode (.pyc) files when they are run, but these files [...]

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30 November 2005 ~ 1 Comment

Preparing for winter

For those of who you have never had the experience of driving 2WD light truck around in a Pennsylvania winter, let me just say that you are missing out on some excitement. Because when I say “drive” I mean that only in the most broad sense of the term. It’s more like “aim in [...]

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29 November 2005 ~ 9 Comments

Django error followup

Yesterday I wrote a quick post about breaking my Django install and didn’t think much of it.

So it was quite a surprise for me to get a comment from Adrian Holovaty, Django developer! He asked for some details on the errors I was getting, so I’ll try my best to explain exactly what the errors are and how they were generated.

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29 November 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Screen Grab!

While hunting for an application to take full-length screenshots of a websites (i.e. not just the visible window, the whole thing), someone suggested Screen Grab. It’s a extension for Firefox that uses Java, and apparently does everything I want.
I installed it this evening and it seems to work perfectly. It adds three options [...]

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