Reliably Broken
Class-based views for Bottle
I’m not convinced this is actually a good idea, but I have an approach for using class-based views as handlers for a route with Bottle.
December 3, 2010
Mac deployment Wiki
The OS X Deployment and Management Wiki, articles about managing and deploying Macintoshes. Looks like it is the work of Rusty Myers and Nate Walck (so far).
October 16, 2010
Startup times for old Macs
Considering it is only a PowerPC G4 processor running at 1.5 GHz, I am impressed that my five-year-old little MacMini can go from pressing the on button to the login screen in 45 seconds, of which the first 10 seconds is the system trying to work out from which disk it should boot. (There is only one disk in the mini - you hear me mini? Boot from that one immediately.)
October 2, 2010
Running Django on Mac
These are semi-detailed steps for installing all the bits to host a Django application on Mac OS X. Tested on 10.5, should work perfectly on 10.6.
September 29, 2010
Notes on using the BBC's JSON schedule data
The BBC used to publish their schedules in a great big XML tarball. They did this daily and it contained the broadcasts for the next seven days. I wrote a script that created iCalendar files out of this for each channel.
September 28, 2010
Chrome's annotated scrollbar
Google’s Chrome Web browser is very interesting: it breaks quite a few Mac interface conventions (for better or worse) and adds some extra, just for you.
September 13, 2010
How to manage more than one Mac
This is an overview of what tools there are for managing a bunch of Macintosh computers on a network. It is intended as a starting point for someone wondering what on earth to do with all those pretty-looking computers the hippie designers like so much.
September 4, 2010
Bottle's view decorator and default variables
Bottle’s @view decorator provides a simple way to designate a template to render an HTML page. Your view function just has to return a dictionary, and its contents can be accessed from the template using the '{{ name }}' syntax.
August 3, 2010
Anita said yes!
I have been poking at Adobe’s support pages recently. They have RSS feeds to which you can subscribe in order to learn when new support documents have been published. Today I happened to refresh the feed in those moments before someone bothered to proof-read what they were publishing.
July 28, 2010
Django-style routing for Bottle
Bottle provides the @route decorator to associate URL paths with view functions. This is very convenient, but if you are a Django-reject like me then you may prefer having all your URLs defined in one place, the advantage being it is easy to see at a glance all the different URLs your application will match.
July 26, 2010