How to compile lftp on OS X Leopard
I've recently been missing a few pieces of software from my linux days most recently, lftp. It wasn't as simple as I had hoped it would be so I thought I'd record how I did it here.
# Download and install readline $ wget ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.0.tar.gz # (or latest stable ...
Posted on Fri 21st August 2009 by david | Link | Mac Tech | Comments: 9
My favourite podcasts (at the moment)
I've been finding recently that I seem to spend a lot more time watching and listening to podcasts than I used to and I thought I'd list them here to see if anyone else has similar podcast taste or if anyone has any podcast recommendations.
Apple Quick Tips: ...
Posted on Mon 23rd February 2009 by david | Link | Life Mac Tech | Comments: 0
Amazon MP3 Store
I have probably been using Amazon a hell of a lot more over the past couple of months than I usually do, mostly because I signed up for an Amazon Prime trial and then bought most Christmas presents from Amazon, but also because of their new MP3 Store.
Amazon ...
Posted on Fri 9th January 2009 by david | Link | Shopping | Comments: 0
How long does it take to do a 7 pass erase with Disk Utility
Since I couldn't find any solid figures for how long it might take to run the 7 pass erase, I thought I'd feed Google with my findings in the hope that it might help someone else in future.
I ran the 7 pass erase on an 80GB Hard Disk ...
Posted on Tue 2nd December 2008 by david | Link | Mac Tech | Comments: 0
Django pony wallpaper popularity
From my logs it seems that the blue wallpaper was the most popular:
74 /blog/django-pony/magic-pony-django-wallpaper-blue.png
57 /blog/django-pony/magic-pony-django-wallpaper-green.png
41 /blog/django-pony/magic-pony-django-wallpaper-red.png
For fun, here is a little graph to demostrate:
Posted on Thu 2nd October 2008 by david | Link | Django | Comments: 0
DJANGO PONY!
If like me, you like the idea of django pony but you're not so keen on the pink, here are some alternatives:
Posted on Fri 19th September 2008 by david | Link | Django | Comments: 1
Another lolcat
Just a quick note to mention that I got both of these lolcat images off of random websites whilst searching for 'happy cat' or 'sad cat', so I don't own the copyright. If you do and you don't want me to use them, ...
Posted on Sat 12th July 2008 by david | Link | Life Mac Tech | Comments: 0
iPhone impatience...
I think O2 heard me:
Date: 9 July 2008 21:01:45 BST Subject: Order Confirmation W00t! My order is confirmed, so ought to be here by Friday!
Posted on Wed 9th July 2008 by david | Link | Life Mac Tech | Comments: 0
Last.fm
Having a few spare minutes, I've added a template tag to my site that shows the last 10 songs I've listened to on last.fm.
@register.inclusion_tag('blog/lastfm_tracks.html') def latest_tracks(): url = 'http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/DReynolds/recenttracks.txt' response = urllib2.urlopen(url) songs = [] for line in response.read().split('\n'): if not re.match(r"^$", line): songdetail = re.split(",", ...
Posted on Wed 25th June 2008 by david | Link | Django Music Tech Web Design | Comments: 3
Slight redesign redux
This time along with a completely different design (which isn't completely finished) I have updated the blog app to work with django trunk, along with adding a delicious template tag. The blog app also now uses markdown - a massive improvement since I was manually entering HTML ...
Posted on Sun 25th May 2008 by david | Link | Django Tech Web Design | Comments: 0
Bootcamp blues
I recently bought a new iMac (2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM 20") and I thought that, since it had an Intel Processor and had Bootcamp preinstalled, I'd give a go installing Windows and make it dual boot between the 2 operating systems. (Also, my boss was keen to ...
Posted on Mon 14th April 2008 by david | Link | Mac Tech | Comments: 0
Slight redesign
I've just taken the opportunity of being quite awake at 11pm (for some reason) to give the site a quick slight redesign. I wanted to feature a photo that I'd taken and thought perhaps I should get rid of the slighty-possibly-offensive picture that was there before.
The picture was taken ...
Posted on Thu 7th February 2008 by david | Link | Life Web Design | Comments: 0
Look! I'm a django contributor
Following the check-in of my uk localisation ticket (5523) I am now listed as a contributor!
Thanks Malcolm! (who incidentally has a very informative presentation online from linux.conf.au, certainly worth a watch)
Posted on Sun 3rd February 2008 by david | Link | Django | Comments: 3
Django builtin serializer doesn't work with form.errors
Thought I'd right a quick note in case anyone else came across this problem. In trying to serialize the output of form.errors, I come across this error:
django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object at 0xb76b520c is not JSON serializable
After lots of debugging help by FunkyBob, empty pointed out a
Posted on Thu 31st January 2008 by david | Link | Django | Comments: 1
