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Re: Fail-clown? | fredericiana

andymckay — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:15:33 -0000

That's awesome. It's the clown from the BBC test card. Back in the day when they had that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: django-statsd nose plugin

andymckay — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:15:35 -0000

Timings are the first set of results, it shows counts, avg. time and total time. The second set of results are incr calls.

Re: Are we businessy yet?

andymckay — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 01:37:31 -0000

Let's contrast the approaches. If you write something using wxWindows (say using wxPython) for example, you have to build and maintain installers for multiple operating systems.

If you build an app using HTML 5 and make a Web App. You can deploy on desktop, tablet and mobile, on Windows, OS X (and maybe Linux) without having to build and maintain anything beyond the basic app. As long as people have Firefox (or Firefox OS) it will work. If you are building and distributing and app in the above manner, is requiring Firefox a big difference?

You'll also have a website that will work on latest versions of IE, Chrome and Opera. However you will have differences in how those browser implement JS, CSS and the like as you mention. You will face challenges in implementing for those differences, we all do all the time, if I said any different, you'd call me a liar (and rightly so). But we also know it's gotten better in the last few years and Mozilla has been helping improve browser standards.

Interesting to hear about requireJS, I've only toyed with it and haven't used it as much as I should. James is really responsive to feedback so if you do have any actionable feedback he'd love to hear it.

Mozilla is also developing an app store that provides access to web apps. It will provide updates to those web apps if they are packaged as well. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Ap...

I'm not sure about 5 years down the line, that feels like a number pulled out of a hat. I know that in the next year Mozilla's app story will get a lot more interesting and if the meantime we can increase the tool chain, we'll help the whole process along.

So that's why we need to know what is missing.

Re: Are we businessy yet?

andymckay — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:19:16 -0000

Getting browsers to the same standards will always be hard work. Most browsers are pretty good these days, although everyone comes across issues all the time.

Bundling and linking javascript apps is getting much better, for example RequireJS (http://requirejs.org/) and it's competitors.

I've seen quite a few tools to catch and report errors, but that's something we can always improve on.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Django book: abort abort abort - Reinout van Rees

andymckay — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:56:35 -0000

Sorry to hear that. I would recommend self publishing as well. The problem I found was self publishing means more self motivation.

Re: Porting numbers in Canada

andymckay — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:45:51 -0000

File a complaint with the CCTS as linked, it worked well for me. Good luck.

Re: The 5 Biggest New Software Companies in BC

andymckay — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:27:46 -0000

"downsizes are nowhere to be seen", apart from #4 in your list.

Re: Vancouver Python Meetup

andymckay — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:08:26 -0000

Wed, Nov 9th, see http://www.meetup.com/vanpyz/

Re: Why is Governement open by default?

andymckay — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:54:59 -0000

Oh yeah the Canadian Firearms Registry, that was appalling. But I think that was beset by other problems and if you have a project that is a political football with ill defined scope it will go wrong, be it open source or not. But I should look into that more.

Re: Profiling Django

andymckay — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:24:35 -0000

Ooh neat, didn't know about that.

Re: This isn't the Canada I came to...

andymckay — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:55:50 -0000

The two things that come to mind immediately are: losing the seat on the UN Security Council:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

and Canada's reputation in climate change talks is terrible:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/c...
http://www.theglobeandmail....

Re: Django and Bleach

andymckay — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:55:17 -0000

Oops, corrected.

Re: Life under code review

andymckay — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:38:56 -0000

pep8 and pylint.

Re: Life under code review

andymckay — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:36:19 -0000

' for strings, " for docstrings, unless something needs escaping.

Re: When App Engine went horribly wrong

andymckay — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:18:48 -0000

I can't provide that for you now, this is over a month ago and the problems were on the import - nothing to do with queries on the db.

Re: Joining Mozilla

andymckay — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:58:46 -0000

Thanks all.

Re: Andy McKay's blog

andymckay — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:22:20 -0000

It's now on github: http://github.com/andymckay...

Re: Andy McKay's blog

andymckay — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:18:24 -0000

There's absolutely nothing to stop you doing that. I'll move it over to github so you can fork it.

But to be honest, I haven't used it for a while and don't know when I'd use it again. If I did there's alot I'd change. So I'll come clean, this is a good basis for someone else to work on this project, someone other than me :)

Re: Rogers My Account Malware?

andymckay — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:14:37 -0000

Made me look again - yes, it does.

Re: Gardening, way cooler than I thought

andymckay — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:31:41 -0000

Oh yes The Good Life I remember that show. Ah Penelope Keith. Haven't watched that in a long time. Fwiw in Canada we don't get Netflix :)

Re: Using Arecibo and Django, the easy way

andymckay — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:21:12 -0000

According to that traceback, you are on Django 1.1, can you try Django 1.2 please?

http://www.areciboapp.com/d...

The RSS and serialization stuff changed in 1.1 from 1.2 so I can imagine that spawning an import error

Re: Class-based views and thread safety | rosemanblog

andymckay — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:37:37 -0000

I find it easier to alter the URL router code. When the URL router resolves to a class, it calls it. All you need to do is alter the urls.py and everything else is the same.

Re: Why I stopped doing Plone

andymckay — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:47:57 -0000

The ZODB is but one reason. There's others (yes Acquisition is one) that I would include in the "things that shouldn't be there are too hard to remove and have caused headaches at one time or another" category.

Re: Creating a ModelForm dynamically

andymckay — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:08:31 -0000

Far too easy, wonder why I didn't do that now :)

Re: Why I stopped doing Plone

andymckay — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:03:49 -0000

And I have to confess, I'm building an app right now in Django that I know *parts of* is already there in Plone. So there is a little a bit of grumbling going on in Clearwind Headquarters at the moment. But in the end, I'll be happy.