Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 24th, 2007
Recently I've chatted with a potential customer.
He seeks developers to create a simple social network application. He spent some time doing this. Actually, a considerable time and a sizable budget: one year and a half and undisclosed amount of money.
Now he's got three different implementations of his idea. ...
Posted in Software Development, Business | 18 Comments »
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Enrico Fermi researchers have made simple cells comprising a fatty membrane containing just 36 enzymes and purified ribosomes.
The Italian team's advance is to make simple cells which are essentially bags made up of a fatty membrane containing just 36 enzymes and purified ribosomes - microscopic components common to all cells ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Yurii Rashkovskii recently blogged about the structure of (consulting) software development house.
There he suggests:
Here we come to a structure for a consulting company that I like. Instead of being employees of some company, professionals of different kinds (i.e. developers, designers, sales, etc.) could team up and define their rules of ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
I read a good deal of feedburned feeds through my custom newsreader (http://www.chytach.com). Last night I've noticed that feedburner keeps dropping my attempts to update the feed:
Failed getting http://internet.seekingalpha.com/feed/ with URLError: (104, 'Connection reset by peer')
Failed getting http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch with URLError: (104, 'Connection reset by peer')
Failed getting http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mashable with URLError: (104, ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
See the writeup by Tim Ottinger:
Shoveling code
I was ill when the first snow fell last weekend, and didn’t get out and scrape the drive and sidewalks. Sadly, neither did I bundle up my kids and send them out with shovels. As a result, the snow melted and refroze. ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
It appears to be quite easy (from technical side) to do a coup refactoring an application from webware to django.
As a first step could be substituting default webware url mapper from url-maps-to-file-hierarchy to django-like regexp matcher.
url map would look like familiar django file:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns
from Pages import Main
urlpatterns ...
Posted in Django, Python | No Comments »
