Elf Sternberg
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Archive for June, 2011
23Jun
Kanso to bootstrap, Couch-docs to learn how to write CouchDB applications.
Posted by Elf Sternberg as database, programming
One of the things I dislike most about some web frameworks is how they try to hide the machinery from your prying eyes. In some cases, this can be downright necessary– the mind that invented Django’s ORM is clearly a twisted evil genius from Mars who knows more about metaprogramming than I do, although I […]
18Jun
Playing with Raphael, Canvas, and animation
Posted by Elf Sternberg as javascript, programming
So, this afternoon, I spent about four hours and played around with Raphael, the SVG library for HTML 5, and the native Canvas renderer. Originally, I was only going to go with Raphael, until someone pointed out to me that Raphael doesn’t work on Android phones. Since my apps have to work on Android […]
Here’s what annoys me most about Satchmo: it wasn’t written by Django developers. Or, at the very least, it wasn’t written by Django developers who had ever bothered to read Jacobian’s Django in the Real World. I was trying today to customize the view of the Satchmo store as provided by the clonesatchmo.py program. I […]
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