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Archive for February, 2010
24Feb
Amazon’s CDN is picky. Django can make dealing with it annoying.
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Uncategorized
This is probably a “no-duh” to some people, but I had not known this. When you upload something to the CDN, you get a url that looks like this: http://cdn.mycompany.com/images/someimage.jpg Which is all fine and good. Django’s MEDIA_URL is usually suffixed with a closing slash, meaning that if you’re in the habit of typing something […]
18Feb
LessCss lets me express myself in CSS the way I express myself in Python
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Design, web development
I recently implemented a new subsite for IndieFlix using LessCss, the Leaner CSS metaframework. LessCss is a programming language that abstracts CSS out into a hierarchal language, where instead of writing: #header { … } #header img { … } You write: #header { … img { … } } Which, believe me, makes a […]
16Feb
The most butch website design on the Interwebs
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Design, web development
Sharper FX They do nothing but churches. Black churches, too. Sharper FX is an 11 on the scale of Manliness. Watch some of the Flash splash pages. They’re amazing. I love this site.
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- Tags: church websites, Design, manliness, web design, websites
A friend of mine pointed me to the website of CB Richard Ellis, a real-estate investment and management house with a big footprint here in the Pacific Northwest. Their hiring website is a horror. No, really, go look, unless you’re an epileptic. (Sadly, the effect only seems to be present for Firefox users. Opera, Chrome, […]
A few weeks ago, I installed the latest version of the Gnome Accessibility Toolkit (Gnome-AT), and while I never quite got it to work the way I wanted to, it didn’t seem to be doing any harm. I figured once I got to the point of showing the client the work we’d talk about accessibility […]
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- Tags: Linux
14Feb
“Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two,” rule for web applications
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Uncategorized
Functional. Elegant. Foolproof. Pick two.
Gwaredd Mountain writes: Microsoft has published empirical data that shows that the process overhead for TDD increases the development effort by 15% – 35%. Despite the many positive benefits from TDD, we cannot possible consider anything that adds an extra 35% effort to produce artefacts the customer will never see as lean. Amazingly, people still […]
Wow, talk about a niche market ready for exploitation. I was talking a client today, and my first question to her was the first question I try to get most of my clients to answer: “If you don’t do this, if you don’t spend the money and the time, what’s the worst that could happen?” […]
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- Tags: freelance, joomla, web design
From the announcements for Rails 3: The upcoming version 3 of Ruby on Rails will feature a sexy new querying API from ActiveRecord. Here is an example: User.order(‘users.id DESC’).limit(20).includes(:items) In other words, Rails is now Django. Also: Each application now has it’s own name space, application is started with YourAppName.boot for example, makes interacting with […]
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