March 2009
39 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
Bloc Party (4)
Jimmy Eat World (4)
Goo Goo Dolls (2)
Keane (2)
Joshua Radin (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Django: Remove ModelChoiceField '------' Label
The ModelChoiceField in Django will automatically add a first value of ‘———’ to the list of choices, which in most cases is perfectly acceptable. However it will do this regardless of the widget, so even using a ‘forms.RadioSelect’ it still appears. You can override this behavior by adding a ‘empty_label’ argument when initializing the class,...
“….and some skittles”
– Badboys
“…Now back up, put the gun down, and get me a pack of Tropical Fruit...”
– Badboys
Wireshark from the command line →
Wireshark command line reference
Tailor - Python tool for Version Control... →
Tailor is a tool to migrate or replicate changesets between ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, CVS, Codeville, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion and Tla repositories.
The dangers of social media →
The (Hidden) Glyphs Palette in OSX →
Hex Color Picker →
Great little extension to the OSX color picker, apple should of had this built in a long time ago!
Bring down IE 6 →
Amen!
High quality CSS thumbnails in IE7 →
IE7 supports a custom bicubic resampling mode for images. Before, resizing a 500×500 image like this:
<img src="pic.jpg" alt="This image is really 500x500 big" class="thumb" width="50" height="50" />
would produce a horrible result in IE, with noticeably lower quality in the resized version.
This is easily fixed in IE7 by applying the following property to the img tag:
img.thumb {...
“a senior director at Microsoft, acknowledged that it might be a conflict of...”
– Via PC World: New IE8 release stresses security
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-15) →
Bloc Party (5)
The Boxer Rebellion (3)
Bruce Springsteen (3)
Bon Iver (2)
Goo Goo Dolls (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Those were the days →
My Tumblr stats →
Little app for finding out info on your Tumble log - tumblrstats.com
Daft Punk Keyboard →
Awesome….. Just Awesome.
2 tags
Pinax →
Collection of reusable Django apps
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-8) →
Snow Patrol (13)
The Airborne Toxic Event (5)
Keane (4)
Joshua Radin (4)
Friendly Fires (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Adobe AIR - WTF error messages
“application descriptor not found”
is the sort of helpful error message you can look forward to when getting started with Adobe AIR…. in my case it was due to a simple typo in the XML configuration file, not sure why AIR couldn’t just say that but anyway…..
Readability →
Awesome little tool to help separate the wheat from the chaff on any given webpage…..
Background jobs in Linux
This is here as a reminder to myself…..
Jobs can be run in the background by adding a ampersand (&) after the command:
% /bin/blah &
and running jobs can be stopped in the background with ‘ctrl-z’
The command jobs will display all the jobs currently in the background and the command fg followed by a number will bring a specific job to the foreground, or without a...
Get your Blue Bar Mojo back in Safari 4
Someone’s infinite wisdom at Apple has meant that the rather useful Blue Loading Bar / Progress Indicator has been replaced by a next to invisible spinner. Thankfully the blue bar can be restored.
At the Terminal type:
$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO
then restart...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-1) →
Death Cab for Cutie (17)
Joshua Radin (13)
Bloc Party (7)
M83 (6)
Keane (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The myth of "keeping up" →
This is hitting pretty close to home right now….