Archive | July, 2006

28 July 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Top 30 Django tutorials

The blixtra blog has a list of the Top 30 Django Tutorials and Articles. My Django on Windows HOWTO appears to have made the list.

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24 July 2006 ~ 4 Comments

Welcome to Comcast

Well, after having just about continuous downtime since Friday, my Internet connection finally seems to be up and running again. After allowing the firewall box to grab a new address via DHCP, I noticed something different:

Yep, that’s a Comcast address.
I had heard rumors that Comcast was going to buy/take over Suscom for probably almost [...]

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20 July 2006 ~ 6 Comments

My new Dell XPS 400

So after driving over to the UPS depot to pick it up, I finally got my new Dell XPS 400 on Tuesday night. Drove home, hooked it up, and hit the power button.
The first thing I noticed was the awesome new and simplified interface.
I thought I had ordered the box with Windows [...]

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17 July 2006 ~ 0 Comments

IronPython article

Jeff Cogswell takes a first look at IronPython (i.e. Python + .NET).

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17 July 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Spatial proximity searching

Jehiah (of relative date function fame) now has some information about spatial proximity searching:
This article covers how to search a database via latitude and longitude to find matches based on spatial proximity (or distance). This code is for mysql (also some in python), but it should be easily adaptable to other languages.
The example involves searching [...]

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