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Mastering Django (part 1)
Motivation
I first attempted to learn how to use Django a little less than a year after it was first released, in the summer of 2006 when I was 19 years old. Young and still finding my footsteps with Python I, like many other Django users, grew tired of creating slightly different web application frameworks for [...]
Wordpress theme changes and Google Analytics: How to successfuly migrate
A few weeks ago I changed the theme of my Wordpress instance. Like many Wordpress users, I employ the incredible magic of Google Analytics and this web application is fucking sweet (excuse my French but I’ve decided since this is my blog, and I am me, I will talk straight to my readers, to whom [...]
Five essential Twitter tactics for beginners
I was introduced to the Twitter world two months ago. While interning at a hotel this summer, it was my responsibility to create, research, and develop a Twitter profile for the business. I quickly became hooked and after doing much research, I’m going to share five important tactics that are crucial for the Twitter novice.
Check your numbers: [...]
Have you ever heard of StumbleUpon?
StumbleUpon is one of the most powerful Firefox plug-ins I have ever used and is “recommended” by the Mozilla team. Basically it is a toolbar add-on for Firefox which allows you to “stumble” through the Internet. Well, not quite the Internet but something even better: a subset of the Internet grouped into categories that users [...]
Solving Vista Update Issues by Brute Force
Contrary to most of the reviews about Windwos Vista and all of its issues, I’ve had very few problems and those that have occurred are usually my fault! It is true that Vista has problems with business networking and other more advanced features of the operating system, but for the home user (Home Premium), I [...]
Custom colors for emacs
All nerds know about the epic geek battle between vim and emacs, the two most popular text editors for Unix and Unix-like systems (i.e. Linux, because calling “Linux” without the prefix “GNU” pisses Richard Stallman off so much, I will never call Linux GNU/Linux. That guy has got to learn when enough is enough.) Anyway, [...]
What links do my users click on? Part 2
In this series’ last post I outlined how to send the URL of a “click’s” destination and the time of the click to a web server via JavaScript’s XMLHttpRequest function. This action is executed by the user’s browser so it is on the client side of the request. In this post, I will present an [...]
What links do my users click on? Part 1
These days there are plenty of services available to track user statistics, like, for example, Google Analytics. These services usually work by having you include a JavaScript file which then sends data to their servers. The data is then displayed in pretty reports where you can browse all the site statistics you’ll ever want.
What if [...]
Pgen-online now available with light tutorial
pgen-onlie is a new online password generator written in XHTML and Javascript. The code is extremely simple but if you are just starting out with programming on the web the source code could perhaps be a good tutorial. I tried to document the code fairly well but I will get into some details below.
One of [...]
Tutorial: Using Amarok with your Windows music library
If you want to read about how to play files on Windows in Linux through Amarok and skip the below comments on Linux on the desktop, go right ahead.
As my last post indicated, I recently updated my Kubuntu Linux to version 9.04. Kubuntu boots alongside Windows Vista and I use each operating system for certain [...]
