Since I started writing code in Python, I've been a big fan of vim. Sure, at first it was a bizarre alien creature, but over time I've learnt it's quirks, and gotten quite comfortable.
Recently, I've thrown Todo.txt into the mix - flat text file, can ...
So I have this horrible habit of coming up with a great idea, or deciding I need to do something, and then having forgotten about it within an hour.
To remedy this, I've tried all sorts of todo, sticky note, and gtd devices/apps/papers. None of them really ...
So I started using screen a while back, and it was pretty useful. Being able to leave off whatever I'm working on from work/uni, and get straight back into it from home was a godsend.
But there was a problem. By default, screen doesn't really make a ...
The django docs have a pretty good page on using fastcgi in a shared hosting environment, but there was always one part that bugged me:
touch mysite.fcgi
That has never worked. It's not turned on by default, and the (admittedly few, I prefer to use VPSes) shared hosts ...
So I generally don't write about my day job, but today we had a somewhat... eventful day in the office. An ESX machine failed, our backup procedures had not been adhered to properly, and for a while it seemed like we'd lost all the data. Miraculously, after the ...
So I have this alarm clock that occasionally ends up being an hour too fast or too slow.
Got a call from calsanne today while I was on my way in to work...
Calsanne: I think I know why you're alarm clock doesn't keep time properly.
Me: Why ...
A few days ago, I had need for a simple issue tracker I could embed inside my projects. I found this ticket, however the code was written for django 0.96...
So I looked at it, and I said, "That's easy. I can make that work with 1.2 ...
So just a few useful links I've found that I figured I would post, a) for my own sake, as I'm sure these are things I'll need again at some point, and b) for the benefit of anyone else who stumbles across this post.
So my laptop has been sent in for warranty repairs twice now. This morning, it has once again started failing to boot. Unfortunately, this time it's warranty is now well and truly expired, so there's now nothing to be done for it, but to scrap it. Unfortunately, Pioneer ...
So a few things have happened over the past couple of days.
So I conducted an experiment. I added a small Google Adsense ad to my site. 300+ page impressions later, not a single click. maybe if I start getting tens of thousands of hits a month, they might come back. But whilst I'm getting hundreds of hits, there's no ...
This is simply amazing. CSS3 is a wonder to behold. The alphabet rendered entirely in CSS3 and The Opera logo rendered entirely in CSS3. I'm not sure if either of these make for practical usage of the power CSS3 gives, but they do certainly demonstrate the limits (or lack ...
JustinSteward.com has now been moved to it's own server! Well, relatively speaking. It is now hosted on a physical server running Proxmox for virtualisation, and Cherokee for the webserver. In the coming days, Calsanne.com and RenShinDo will also be moved on to the new server as their ...
One of the biggest PITAs when working with linux, is mingling with Windows file systems. Say you dual boot, or need to shuffle files between a linux machine and a Windows one. FAT file systems are antiquated beasts, and NTFS in linux is likely never to be perfect. And then ...
One painful lack in TinyCore Linux that I loved in Linux Mint was the Gnome Do feature. Now, I could just compile Gnome Do and package it as a TCZ extension... but then I've got a fancy tool that requires the entire Gnome stack when I'm using no ...