Elf Sternberg
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Archive for August, 2010
18Aug
Django and Asynchronous Gearman, Together At Last!
Posted by Elf Sternberg as django, web development
I searched for “django gearman” on Google and Bing, and found precious little. There isn’t much out there, so I’ve decided to put together my own example, using Gearman as a queue manager. If you don’t know what Gearman is, it’s a “generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that [...]
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- Tags: asynchronous, gearman
12Aug
Sharpening the blade, part MCMXVII: Nine Amazing Hours.
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Uncategorized
I resolved, earlier this year, to start finishing some of my projects. That hasn’t gone too well– the day jobbe appears to have chewed up most of my time. But after my Palm V died, I no longer had a chiming program to help me get into the rhythm of the day. I’ve since replaced [...]
11Aug
How surprising! Chrome and Firefox disagree on the HTML5 Spec
Posted by Elf Sternberg as web development
Oh, what a surprise! Firefox implements the HTML5 “article” tag as display: inline, and Chrome implements it as display:block. How annoying. Well, it’s a simple CSS setting to make it work as expected. (Edit: I see, as always, A List Apart is way ahead of me on this. By almost a year!)
I learned today how to enable ReCaptcha for Django. It’s fairly trivial. I’ll show you how to enable this for account registration. First, go and create a key pair for your site. You don’t even have to give them an email address, which is nice. Install the recaptcha client library on your site: pip install [...]
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