December 2007
62 posts
Sinatra + Sequel = idea to execution in a night.
Sinatra (the Ruby framework) Just Works, literally. First time. Rendered. Worked. Everything.
DilleniaUPC: New favorite font, it’s like Rockwell but less ‘too much’
Big decisions: black/white/black pickguard on a black tele, or a tortoise?
Also, I finally have a deadline: March.
Reading up on scalability after weighing future possibilities in Italy.
Back in the US of A.
Florence to Rome today.
Italy: Most things are as old as they look. Walking. Roswell and E.T. dubbed in Italian. Walking. Food-tourism boggles my mind.
I’ll be in Rome in less than 24 hours. In the meantime, Lua is cool, with the exception that it starts array indexing at 1. I vaguely remember FORTRAN (yes, all caps) starting at 1. 0 just seems right, and I need to ask my math-major friend why math doesn’t start array/matrix/tuple indexes at one.
Django is really topping my list of stuff that ‘just works’
Finally understood a Haskell example I started looking at two days ago. I mean, I’m fairly sure I’m not an idiot, but…
Well, that was pretty simple.
test
Considering writing a console client for tumblr in Python.
“It’s like putting a camera in every classroom,” says Christine...”
– http://www.ou.edu/archives/it-fyi/0663.html
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~noonan/cs312/Lectures/prolog/slide17.html Note the last rule.
‘In mathematical logic, a Horn clause is a clause (a disjunction of literals) with at most one positive literal.’ - maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Wikipedia’s entries on math are entirely referential to others, while other articles can be interpreted on their own. I’m also guessing that it’s an entirely different crowd writing them…
Designing my portfolio and thinking about how obvious it would to make a micro-portfolio web-app for Facebook.
I got Django, Lighttpd, and Apache all working on my Slice, and it’s quite nice. I’ll just keep developing my blog/cms on my local machine (I figure I can make serious headway on the 8.5hr trip home) and upload it there, and it’s party time.
Failed UF Logo Design, generic KU logo design, successful Rutgers logo design
And it’s cumulative.
All 12:30 classes, exams on Thursday. EXCEPT FOR LINEAR ALEBRA, TUESDAY
Amazon's Dynamo - All Things Distributed →
Oh, well, I guess this is SimpleDB
SimpleDB is Berkeley DB →
And Berkeley DB is… cool. I’m seeing almost all of the cool stuff from CouchDB in it. Maybe it isn’t well-regarded is because each language interface needs to be written directly for its protocol (no SQL or JSON here…)
“I literally said to myself, ‘Fuck art. I’ve gotta get out of the basement....”
– Gerard Way (of My Chemical Romance) - after 9/11.
Thinking about just rolling my own document-based database in MySQL… CouchDB is still very alpha, and with the PHP demos down, you can’t even tell how or if it works. Also, probably a Python frontend. Because it isn’t PHP, and deployment on Ruby is just insanely difficult. Say what you will about RoR and the Ruby interpreter, but FastCGI, Mongrels, Lighttp, etc, are all either...
Well, I am crashing Python every couple minutes, but it’s cool to see that CPU spikes at 25% because this is a quad-core machine…
Downloading a 2.9Gb Wikipedia backup, hoping that W&M IT doesn’t mind.
Vanity label →
Frank Sinatra founded Reprise Records, which introduced Jimi Hendrix and was bought by WB
Made a surprising amount of progress on my Wikipedia-related project. I think I might have play data fairly soon - it seems like it’ll be a good use for an ORM - Python or Ruby is the question.
Wishing, partially, that I had written We-Run and PortfolioTree with Django instead of CodeIgniter. But I know I would face more deployment anxiety, so…
32.
[Offline IM sent 1h and 36m ago]
62 Chapters of Astronomy left.
best of craigslist : It's me! Every girl ever. →
Whatever fun 3D modeling once was, 500 poorly implemented, proprietary, and undocumented file formats killed.
predicate on dictionary.com How can such a popular dictionary put the actual results below the fold?
Making a Portfolio in Django →
Seems like the Textpattern era is over for this guy. WorkingIdea will be Django-powered, and the Flat Hat is only giving me trouble (and 1.5 req/sec) lately.
… I need to write a follow-up app to Swem Signal that reminds kids that this is the 3rd Floor and I have a take-home test due tommorrow.
Django on Windows: The only Tutorial That Worked... →
New quandry: How to do a free/pay service - either a robust demo, a walkthrough, or an incredibly minimal free version?
Got about 8 hours tonight to do this take-home start-to-finish. If only it wasn’t all about Hegel.
Okay, great, now let's stop making to-do list... →
Embarking on the first of 4 midterms…
Studying astronomy is an odd thing. Certain parts of it, like the cosmological constant (an energy that fills all of space… this energy is unlike energies we are familiar with, says the textbook), and dark matter (possibly dead stars, probably not, says the textbook) seems plainly like the concept of ether before ‘modern’ physics developed.
12:00 - Looked at exam schedule and saw an exam for 8am that morning
12:04 - Heart rate 200bpm
12:05 - Realize it’s take-home due Wednesday