DjangoCon 2008 Announced

Rob'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's Twitter Page…

Search Django Snippets with GreaseMonkey

I was looking around 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 box (in the header) across…

The Troggs Tapes

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. (Warning: This recording contains lots of expletives!!) Dubba, dubba, dubba…

FAIL of the week: Apple Mighty Mouse

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 yesteryear that were great…

CSS Sprite Generator Version 2.0

Ed and I have been busy updating the CSS Sprite Generator 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 of doing this we've fixed the large majority of all…

MySQL Moves to Bazaar for Source Control

Great news that MySQL has migrated it's source code from BitKeeper over to Bazaar. 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 the move to bazaar, Mysql are also using launchpad as their…

Use Growl for Entourage Notifications

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 Having tried it, it works really nicely and is much better than the built-in notifier. Next I'll be trying out FetchExc to see if I can…