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Re: New Year’s Resolutions

fullern — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:08:38 -0000

Richard, your goals fit all the criteria for goals: attainable, measurable and with definite timelines ... and they will make you a healthier, happier person. Good luck. Go for it!

Re: IE is Being Mean to Me

tdrapeau — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:24:10 -0000

And just like that--Jonathan Coulton sparks an industry. :-)

Re: The Hidden Cost of Home Entertainment

Christopher Finke — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:37:27 -0000

For just a few dollars more, you can get an Apple Airport Express - it provides an Ethernet jack that connects to your WiFi, plus you can use it to network speakers or a printer. (That's what we did to get our Tivo online.)

Re: The Price of Unrealistic Expectations

Tom Drapeau — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:13:40 -0000

Indeed Rich, and fair point about discouraging young marriage, considering that kids in their teens and early 20's can smell arbitrary parenting from a mile away, and will often rebel against it. :-)

And being a proud father myself, I concur, naps are worth their weight in gold.

Re: The Price of Unrealistic Expectations

Rich — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:56:50 -0000

Depending on the study between 60% and 70% of divorces are initiated by the women in the relationship. Most of these studies that I've seen do include other reasons for women filing besides dissatisfaction including custody issues.

While I agree that parents of teen kids should encourage dating with different people, I do disagree slightly with discouraging 20 somethings from marrying. While the 20s are a huge growth time for most people. I see that as an opportunity for people to grow up together and become closer.

I do really think parent involvement is crucial here. They really need to help set expectations about relationships and marriage. They should really take the time to discuss things like romance novels and shows like bridezilla or my super sweet sixteen. How the behaviors in these shows are not appropriate and should not be expected from an actual working relationship. Look at any standard romantic comendy. If any guy behaved like in one of these movies he would end up in jail for stalking and most guys would not behave like that in the first place.

I also think that women should really understand that a man can show his love and appreciating for his wife without a big romantic act. It might be as simple as watching the kids so she can take a nap.

Re: The Price of Unrealistic Expectations

Blaine — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:14:12 -0000

This is going on with a lot of my classmates back home.
So weird.

Re: The Price of Unrealistic Expectations

Tom Drapeau — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:22:43 -0000

Yeah, the 7 year itch. I've seen it myself, and I've seen it both ways. Not sure how much to read into the 2/3 figure, I was married once at 22 after living with her for 3 years, divorced with cause at 27, and now am tremendously happy after meeting my sweetheart at 30 and now married at 34. People tend to get married in their early to mid 20's, but a lot changes about a person in their 20's.

I think parents should be encouraging their H.S. age kids to go on dates with different people so they can experience different viewpoints on life and thus better figure out what they want. Some time studying abroad is great too, different cultures view relationships differently. Finally, I think parents should discourage their 21 year old kids from jumping into marriage. Courtship is a beautiful time that shouldn't be rushed.

My $0.02 anyway. :-)

Re: FAIL: libIDL on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Trent Mick — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:55:59 -0000

It looks like plus signs are being stripped in your blog comments. The necessary command is:

sudo port install libIDL {PLUSSIGN}universal

Re: FAIL: libIDL on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Trent Mick — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:53:30 -0000

I believe that should be:

sudo port install libIDL universal

I.e. that " " is necessary. As per http://trac.macports.org/wiki/...

Re: Caching Parsed Django Templates

Rich — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:40:43 -0000

There is a ticket for getting this functionality into core django. http://code.djangoproject.com/...

Re: Caching Parsed Django Templates

Rich — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:30:16 -0000

Sure, if you wanted to get fancy we could store the template in memcache or do a hash check like you suggest, but this is just a simple solution. It's not something really robust.

Re: Caching Parsed Django Templates

Tom Drapeau — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:49:35 -0000

No hot deploy capability in Django? Tsk tsk. How about storing the md5 of the file along with the cached contents, and checking the md5 of the file when it is requested, before pulling it out of the cache?

Re: FAIL: libIDL on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

hideaki — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:34:44 -0000

Thank you! This saved me a lot of time!

Re: FAIL: libIDL on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Rich — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:06:47 -0000

I've solved this myself.

I ran:
sudo port -f uninstall installed
sudo port install libIDL universal

Re: Komodo Edit Add-ons

Rich — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:18:36 -0000

Why should I buy it, when I can get all the functionality and more from eclipse. I've gone back to using it anyway because of the mylyn integration.

Re: Komodo Edit Add-ons

Radu — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:32:37 -0000

If you want svn, buy the Komodo IDE. Jesus, it's 200$, do you think the Komodo guys live on water only ? They have to eat also. I earn 500$ a month and i bought it, because of respect for them.

Re: Improving Django Cache – Part III

Rich — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:06:19 -0000

You are beating me to the punch. My next post in the series is on creating a cache decorator. :)

Re: Improving Django Cache – Part III

Ben Bangert — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:20:08 -0000

And here's that code snippet with formatting:
http://pylonshq.com/pasties/ab...

Re: Improving Django Cache – Part III

Ben Bangert — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:18:58 -0000

Hmm, not sure it'd be ideal to put in there. What would probably work best is to make a Django middleware, that add's a cache instance to the request object.

That way inside a Django function, you could do something like:

def myview(request):
@request.cache.cache('my_search_func', expire=3600)
def get_results(search_param):
# do something to retrieve data
data = get_data(search_param)
return data
results = get_results('demo')
return Response(results)

This way you could use the nice decorator API:
http://beaker.groovie.org/cach...

You'd also hopefully be able to pass the appropriate beaker configuration options to the middleware then as well, since Beaker supports several different back-ends (even simultaneously), so that you could change which backend is used on a per-cache basis as appropriate.

Re: Improving Django Cache – Part III

Rich — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:46:32 -0000

I'm just taking a looking at your source code. Pretty nice, it would be interesting if you could add a wrapper so it could be used as a custom Django cache backend.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/...

Re: Improving Django Cache – Part III

Ben Bangert — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:31:16 -0000

Or you could just setup and use Beaker's caching system in Django:
http://beaker.groovie.org/

Fast, performs great, oh, and it actually prevents the dog-pile effect which kills most of the hodge-podge caching stuff. It also handles the messy locking to prevent multiple processes on the same machine from all re-creating the cached value at once, and its been used in large production systems for quite a long while now.

I'd be happy to include some stuff to make it easier to use from Django if someone cares to submit some patches. :)

Re: Tweets for 2009-07-17

Rich — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:05:41 -0000

I've always had plans to update it, but never enough time. Now that Mozilla is allowing contributions to extensions, I think I'll try to make the time.

Re: Tweets for 2009-07-17

Jason Anderson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:24:57 -0000

Hi Richard,

Is there any chance that you'll be updating the Location Navigator
extension to work with Firefox 3.5? I tried emailing but your mail server rejected the email.

Matt

Re: Event Delegation with JQuery

Rich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:23:40 -0000

I haven't posted anything that couldn't be found by doing a view source on a page ;)

Re: Event Delegation with JQuery

Tom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:16:23 -0000

Don't give away all our secrets... :-)