Take a look at this picture over here of the new iMac beside an old one. I’m working on a 21.5” iMac right now and I can’t get spending a bunch of money to save an inch that I never see. Work gets done while your looking at the screen. Maybe they will truly be tons faster but I somehow doubt it.…
Update: Feb. 1st 2013 - It appears they have finally cleaned up all the fraud posts. Living in the Salt Lake City area is fabulous and around here the main market to buy and sell stuff - along with Craigslist - is KSL.com. I’ve sold and purchased several vehicles via the used cars section of their site. Its at ksl.com/auto/. While its a great resource its also absolutely filled with fraudulent postings trying to get people to send money for cars that don’t exist.…
Recently while working on PrinceJets I found I really needed to filter a drop down on a ForeignKey relationship. I found a way to do it in the Django documentation but it said not to use it for queries that returned over 100 results but my model was regions which were linked to countries and then continents. In short I had thousands of records to sort through. Uggh, it should be simple, but it wasn’t.…
A lot has been made of the train wreck that has been Apple maps but this result showed up for me recently on Google maps making it abundantly clear that sometimes good old common sense is better than the best computer results. Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s not where its located……
So, I’ve been a Mac guy for a while now. Switching way back in 2007 to a Macbook Pro with Tiger on it. Every update since has gone smooth. I purchased a Mac Mini for my wife in 2009 and its been a great machine that we use at home. A few weeks ago I thought, I know, I’ll update this thing from Leopard to Lion and she’ll love it. Uhh, no.…
A while back I posted a tutorial on how to style Twitter Bootstrap and specifically build out new Mezzanine themes using the bootstrap framework. Bootstrap uses Less files which are compiled to css files. In the video I show you how I set it up so that I can easily style a new site using bootstrap without modifying the bootstrap files directly. That makes it easy to update bootstrap later without having to merge your changes back in.…
A few months ago the water pump on my wonderfully trusty Audi A4 (98) went out. That wasn’t all, the oil pan had become cracked and was leaking as well, along with a few other little things. For fun I decided to fix it myself. There were a couple of parts that weren’t fun, like having to take off the entire front end to get to the water pump. And one of the Torx heads on a bolt was stripped but other than that, easy peezy ;) Runs like a champ again and no leaks.…
Sublime Text 2 replaced Textmate as my default editor (sorry TM, you were awesome while it lasted) over six months ago and I haven’t looked back. The first thing to know about Sublime Text 2 is that its package control system is awesome and it really makes the editor what it is. After downloading and installing Sublime you need to install the package control system. To do that open the built in command line interface by hitting Ctrl + ` (Thats a back tick and its the key just below the esc key on most keyboards.…
Note that while this post is oldish the process below still works well as of today: 3/26/2014 This post is going to quickly go over how I set up Django based sites quickly and easily on Webfaction using Virtualenv’s. First things first, log into your Webfaction server via SSH shell (Terminal or Putty.) Note that I use commands to use Python 2.7. Change the -2.7 to whatever version you need or prefer as necessary.…
I switched to Chrome as my main browser a while back after Firefox started updating every 10 minutes and never seemed to be as stable for me on OSX as it once was. With that switch the only thing I really missed was my beloved Firebug plugin. I slowly adjusted to Chrome Dev Tools but its taken some time to get used to the different interations. Today I stumbled on this post by Josh sharing a great presentation that I wished I had seen earlier.…