Repeating Sections in a Django Template
I have a need to have multiple sections of name/value pairs with a header on some pages. Something like: <div class="row"> <div class="span6"> <div class="row"><div...
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I just stumbled on Geert Jansen’s book ‘Thoughts on RESTful API Design.’ Here he has documented things he learned while designing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization API. The nice thing is that the...
View ArticleVI Joke
I have no idea where I found this. People don’t argue about editors as much as they used to. This joke was more relevant then. Two guys are sitting in a bar, and get talking. "What's you IQ?" one asks....
View ArticleNew Rowing Series on Row-2K
Row2K has posted the first video of a new web series. This one is called ‘Gut Checks.’ It is a series of short interviews with national-caliber rowers interspersed with some great rowing video. “The...
View ArticleEasy Erg – C++ Library for the Concept 2 Rowing Machine Released
I recently open-sourced some of my code. It’s a C++ library that wraps the API and provides an ‘Erg’ class. It currently it builds against an older version of the SDK – version 1.24 – and the current...
View ArticleNew Programming / Shell / Vim Font
Thanks to Chris Weisel for pointing out a great new font for shells and Vim. I usually check out “great new programming fonts” and am consistently disappointed. This one is different. It is similar to...
View ArticleAdding GIT branch to BASH prompt
Save this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh to ~/.git-prompt.sh Then add to ~/.bashrc: source ~/.git-prompt.sh GIT_PS1_SHOWCOLORHINTS=1...
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Plane Spotter
My new app Plane Spotter has been approved. The interesting part of it is that it is written in Python and Kivy. Having written Android apps in Java, Cordova, and now Python, I can unequivocally say...
View ArticleUsing Beets from 3rd Party Python Applications
I am thinking of using Beets as music library to update a project. The only example of using it this way is in the source code of the Beets command-line interface. That code is well-written but does...
View ArticleDo you need a ticket to PyCon 2018?
I have one ticket (main conference, no tutorials) for Pycon 2018 in Cleveland that I will not be able to use. It is at the the early-bird rate of $350. Please contact me if you are interested in it.
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