Rob [http://www.siudesign.co.uk/]'s just announced on Twitter that the DjangoCon 2008 will be held at the GooglePlex on 6-7th September. More details will be announced on http://djangoproject.com in due course. Also the DjangoCon Site will be up this coming Friday. via EvilRob'…
I was looking around DjangoSnippets.org [http://djangosnippets.org] last night and had been using the "site: djangosnippets.org" in google to be able to search the site. To make life easier I've knocked up a noddy greasemonkey script to provide a basic Google powered search…
It's been a while since I heard this legendary recording of the Troggs arguing in the studio control room. The recording is said to have inspired some of the scenes in Spinal Tap. Download the .mp3 at the web archive. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070311224019/http://website.…
The Apple Mighty mouse is an expensive piece of trash. To be fair I do appreciate Apple's kit, especially when the majority of their hardware is, on the whole, a good blend of form and function. Now I'm pretty sure everyone remembers the ball mice of…
Ed [http://www.ejeliot.com] and I have been busy updating the CSS Sprite Generator [http://spritegen.website-performance.org/] to improve it's output quality by using the Imagick library instead of GD and as a result this allows a much tighter control over the output. In the process…
On the weekend I was lucky enough to be sent a copy of the awesome mobile Python book [http://tinyurl.com/64bc6l] by my brother for my birthday. After hitting an issue with updating my PyS60 [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pys60] install I thought it would be a plan to…
Great news that MySQL [http://www.mysql.com/] has migrated it's source code from BitKeeper over to Bazaar [http://bazaar-vcs.org]. Interestingly the featureset and openness are cited as the main reasons for the switch to bazaar over several alternatives (which weren't listed). In addition to…
I really don't like the Entourage notification widget so I looked into using Growl notification instead and found this: Use Growl for Entourage Notifications [http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule013.html] Having tried it, it works really nicely and is much better than the built-in notifier.…