As many users like myself probably have noticed, Apple seriously fucked us with their latest security release. From what I’ve read, they reverted Perl to an older version which doesn’t support some common features. I began receiving errors such as the following with fink and other applications: IO object version 1.22 does not match bootstrap [...]

So today I went ahead and cleaned up my UUIDField implementation. Originally it was just based off of a snippet. I wanted to swap it over to use a BINARY column in MySQL, after reading on how FriendFeed had been using UUIDs. Due to using Django however, you can’t use binary data or BLOB columns [...]

Quite a while back I introduced basic JavaScript widgets on Nibbits. These let site owners embed a simple box on their own site which shows basic information, as well as a download link for their maps. So, why am I posting about this? Simply to spread the word, and to demo it of course

One of the repetitive tasks that I always seem to have, is handling large amounts of data in chunks. That is, typically I loop through every row in the database, but the result set is too large, or too slow to take into memory all at once. After reading my code a few too many [...]

One of the big things I’ve been talking about, and working on over the past couple of months (although I haven’t been working much on it), is our new Lifestream service. The goal is to simply create an open platform. A place where a user can sign up and add their feeds much like on [...]

In the Lifestream service I’ve been working on, I presented myself with the need to have some class abstraction, but not in the fashion which is available in Django models. I wanted to achieve a base class, which is stored in the database, and then child classes which simply override some methods. It turned out [...]

As a sort of challenge to myself, I once again attempted to recreate ticket #17 as a standalone component. After a few hours, and some previous code I had written as a good guide, it seems to be working. So I’d like to announce django-idmapper. The goal of the project is a simple plug-and-play system [...]

One of the optimizations (if you want to call it that) that can be done for decreased load-time on a web page, is removing excess white space. In many of our pages at iBegin this saved as much as 100kb. While not every site has some of the 300kb pages that we have, it can [...]

I was one of the lucky few around here to get my hands on a BlackBerry Storm on Friday. Let me start by saying, I didn’t purchase (before or now) an iPhone simply because of AT&T’s coverage where my parents live. I came into this having never owned a BlackBerry before. I’ve only owned one [...]

Tonight I finally took the chance to finish up the sidebar widgets in LifeStream, and I think everyone who’s been waiting for them will be satisfied. The widget allows you to place one or more, using the dynamic widgets feature which is in WordPress, for any supporting themes. Each widget let’s you customize the title, [...]