I was trying to write a toy program in Django this morning, something kinda silly and spicy, and one of the things I wanted was a horizontal scrolling special effect, using the animation tools in, say, Dojo or jQuery.
And I realized, as I was writing it, that it had been almost two years since I’d [...]

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One very rare problem that hits some people with Drupal is that it hangs on installation, and never gets anywhere.  Using Firebug, I was able to track the problem down to jQuery, then ripped out the minimized copy of jQuery, stuck in a full copy, and re-ran the install, which immediately revealed the bug.
Drupal was [...]

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I’m prepping for an interview this afternoon at what is primarily a Perl shop, and so I’m mainlining the O’Reilly Perl in a Nutshell book as a way of reminding myself about the little details of the language. I can write Perl just fine– I just made some major hacks to dailystrips for example, [...]

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So, while working my way through my current project, I came across the notion of a ’slot’ as discussed here. And I wondered, what the Hell is a slot?
A slot is nothing more than a memory management nicety: when you define __slots__ on a class, you’re telling the Python interpreter that the list of [...]

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I can’t tell if I’m suffering from the geek equivalent of writer’s block, analysis paralysis, overload, or some combination of all of the above.
I’ve been working on a generalized platform for narrator, the story engine for the Journal Entries and everything else. As I’m working my way through the process, I’m thinking in typical [...]

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