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1
Django Reverse-Engineer from Existing Legacy Tables
I've been playing a bit with Django, a Python-based web framework. One thing that people starting in Django seem to miss out on is the standard "how to I make model classes from my existing database tables"? That's not because you can't do th...
4-Oct-2008
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What's wrong with the web, Part 45: Demanding Redundant Language Choice
Today's rant won't be politically correct. Not that you care, dear readers. A problem with the Web in Canada is that most corporate and government sites force you to pick a language. Why is that a problem? Because you've already picked a language. If ...
21-Aug-2008
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What's wrong with the web, Part 44: Browser Version Fascism
I get really frustrated when web sites tell me to "upgrade" from Firefox 3 to Firefox 1.5. I understand that they feel they have to play silly little trix to make their web site look like some over-inspired abstract landscape, but can they pl...
19-Aug-2008
4
What's wrong with the web, Part 43(b)
Here's another example of a stupid web site problem that could have been easily avoided. I sent this to (name of web site) this morning; let's see if I get a response from this one. Your Web Developers need to get with the "don't make me think&qu...
19-Jul-2008
5
What's wrong with the web, Part 43
This is a cleaned-up version of what I sent to a major Canadian corporation's web team after trying to use their site. --------------------...
18-Jun-2008
6
Seam Leaves Home (on good terms)
In addition to cranking out a new stable release (2.0.1.GA) and a new early access release (2.1.0.A1), The JBoss Seam framework has been renamed to "The Seam Framework" and has a new website, http://www.seamframe...
24-Mar-2008
7
Now Digg This
Digg is, of course, a social networking site for rating blogs and other web resources. I just found a site that not only shows how to add a Digg button to one's blog, but applies to the particular blogging software I use, Pebble. Thanks to Patrick Melo...
6-Feb-2008
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OpenStreetMap - Toronto Mapping Weekend, Dec 1-2, 2007
OpenStreetMap is a project to build a free (unencumbered) map of the world, similar in scope to the various commercial web-based maps that you might have used. They're making good progress in some areas and, in fact, the outlines of Toronto are now pre...
27-Nov-2007
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What's wrong with the Web, part 42
In a story on BoingBoing, a "web developer" who got a major bit of Sticker Shock on his eye(candy)Phone from AT&T wrote: "On the way to the airport, I activated the per-use international roaming data plan - the only one offered to m...
31-Jul-2007
10
New Blog, Same As the Old Blog
After using my own cobbled-together blogware for a few years, I realized I'd probably never find the time to "finish" writing it. So, I decided to get something better. Around this time somebody called my attention to a web-based blogging pac...
23-Mar-2007
11
Quick Links added to site
I've added a series of UNIX and Java "quick links" to the bottom of [this site's] main page.
1-Jul-2003
12
TV Show on JavaServer Pages
My Internet TV show Inside Java Server Pages is released by WatchIT.com. You can buy it on CD-ROM or watch it online. There's a free online preview of the show's highlights; your big chance to see me in a suit and tie :-)
20-Mar-2002