http://disqus.com/people/ericflo/enWed, 21 Oct 2009 13:14:07 -0000http://djangodose.com/podcasts/callcast/episode/10/#comment-20715365Actually Brian did do quite a bit of production/editing on this episode. If you could let us know the specific places where you heard dead air, we will definitely aim to reduce those in the future. It was a fairly difficult episode to coordinate and record with 8 people across the globe, but I think that Brian actually did a good job notwithstanding.ericfloWed, 21 Oct 2009 13:14:07 -0000http://djangodose.com/podcasts/callcast/episode/9/#comment-16279004We're going to be importing the other callcasts from our previous site, <a href="http://thisweekindjango.com" rel="nofollow">thisweekindjango.com</a>ericfloWed, 09 Sep 2009 19:45:09 -0000http://www.agmweb.ca/blog/andy/2222/#comment-15958479Wow, I do things very differently! Surprising how we both use the same tool and have totally different ways of using it.ericfloFri, 04 Sep 2009 02:20:15 -0000http://scobleizer.com/2009/08/22/tech-hype-gang/#comment-15243922Nah, I don't think it'll escape the list. It's fun, and I use it, but I think it's destined to remain niche.ericfloSat, 22 Aug 2009 18:36:12 -0000http://mashable.com/2009/08/15/google-loses-to-yahoo/#comment-14896327I bet it had to do with Michael Jackson. I'm serious...think about the demographics.ericfloSat, 15 Aug 2009 22:20:06 -0000http://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/camelot-django-desktop/#comment-14530617SQLAlchemy really is a lot more powerful than Django's ORM, so I think it was a good choice. It can also be made as easy to use. (I'm a big Django advocate, but I doubt you'll find many who say SQLAlchemy isn't a superior ORM to Django's)ericfloSun, 09 Aug 2009 21:11:44 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/11/pirate-outnumber-buyers-3-1-on-iphone-apps/#comment-9221878This is just sad...the app is $.99. I understand why someone might feel justified pirating a $3,000 piece of software, but nobody who owns an iPhone can say that they can't afford a 99 cent app.<br><br>It would really be interesting, though, to see how many people convert and actually purchase an item after having tried it out illegally.ericfloMon, 11 May 2009 18:29:36 -0000http://zvoase.tumblr.com/post/77349312#comment-6234711I like the idea of having multiple different settings--one each for production, staging, and development. I don't like the way you need to specify it via a text file, though.<br><br>The solution that I've used to do the same thing is this:<br><br>FLAVOR = os.environ.get('FLAVOR', 'development')<br><br>if FLAVOR == 'development':<br> from settings_overrides.development import *<br>elif FLAVOR == 'staging':<br> from settings_overrides.staging import *<br>elif FLAVOR == 'production':<br> from settings_overrides.production import *<br><br>Actually my code doesn't quite look like that. We use PyFlakes at work and it pukes on star imports, so there's some sludge to do essentially a star import without using that syntax. The added benefit of that sludge is that it dynamically imports 'settings_overrides.' + FLAVOR.<br><br>The nice thing about this setup is that you don't have to change anything on-disk, just set a simple environment variable. This way you can run, for example, (off of the same codebase and file path) both a staging and a development environment.ericfloFri, 13 Feb 2009 04:08:38 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/14219/hyperlocal-websites-will-boom-in-2009-as-community-newspapers-fold/#comment-4884885What do you think about everyblock.com? They seem to have really done it right.ericfloSun, 04 Jan 2009 19:26:59 -0000http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/01/04/whyTwitterCantBeConversati.html#comment-4883352This is so true. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, actually. In essence, people have turned Twitter into something it's not. <br><br>We need to build, from the ground up, what people *want* Twitter to be. Nobody else has gotten this right. In my opinion, the real innovation of Twitter is the unidirectional follow instead of the bidirectional friend relationship. All the rest is just IRC. If someone built an IRC-like service with some sort of standard API where everyone had their own personal "room" (feed) and they could choose whose messages went into that "room" (follows), and the reply metadata being annotated onto the stream (replies, etc.), then you could have a real killer service on your hands.ericfloSun, 04 Jan 2009 16:53:15 -0000http://justindriscoll.us/2008/09/bandcamp.html#comment-4560034This bandcamp.mu place is pretty ridiculously cool. My brother just used it to launch his band's first album and as a user, the experience is very good. (BTW you can check the album out here <a href="http://deltarasa.bandcamp.mu/" rel="nofollow">http://deltarasa.bandcamp.mu/</a>)ericfloSun, 21 Dec 2008 15:42:24 -0000http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-i-done-joined-reddit.html#comment-4247746I think you'll like Reddit. It's a pretty good community, and if you visit the right niches, it's got great content. Thanks for the linkage!ericfloMon, 08 Dec 2008 08:37:25 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/8137/2012-movie-teaser-trailer/#comment-3733979Cool, thanks for posting. By the way, I really like that your site doesn't have one specific focus. Sometimes it's tech news, sometimes it's trailers, and other times it's celebrity gossip. Ok well I could do without the celebrity gossip but you know what I mean :) Keep up the good work!ericfloThu, 13 Nov 2008 03:09:08 -0000http://blog.louisgray.com/2008/10/noiseriver-shuts-down-after-developer.html#comment-3337418I do understand directeur's complaints, though. Plenty of people follow me, but for whatever reason FriendFeed still seems like a one-way channel for communication. The top participants post cool stuff, and I comment on it. Sometimes someone will respond to me on one of their posts, but never do discussions start on my own items. That being said, I do enjoy the things that the top participants post enough to keep going back :)ericfloTue, 28 Oct 2008 00:59:06 -0000http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/10/26/checkingOutVpses.html#comment-3308980Ahh, sorry--in the case of Windows I have no insight :)ericfloSun, 26 Oct 2008 06:30:32 -0000http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/10/26/checkingOutVpses.html#comment-3308947I've been using SliceHost for a while now, and been extremely satisfied with their service, reliability, and stability. They've just been bought by Rackspace and so far I haven't noticed any difference, but that's something to be aware of. I've also heard nothing but praise for Linode, but haven't had any personal experience with them. Joyent always gets high praise as well, but they are OpenSolaris-based, which leads to some more difficult setup than some of the more standard Linux distributions. I have a Joyent VPS and never was able to get everything set up properly with it.ericfloSun, 26 Oct 2008 06:18:33 -0000http://www.inquisitr.com/6050/william-shatner-hates-gay-peoplewell-george-takei-anyway/#comment-3248708This article is ridiculous, headline-mongering nonsense. You clearly haven't watched the video, and have taken his words completely out of context. I usually enjoy inquisitr, but this article is just a mismatch from the video.ericfloThu, 23 Oct 2008 06:06:03 -0000http://blog.louisgray.com/2008/09/just-wishing-for-something-to-go.html#comment-2517008Yes, I certainly hope these things don't go mainstream.ericfloMon, 22 Sep 2008 04:35:01 -0000http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/08/11/twitterLimitingFollowersTo.html#comment-1164503They can grow beyond 2000 followers. It's the other way around--you can't follow more than 2000 people.ericfloMon, 11 Aug 2008 22:49:15 -0000http://benjamingolub.com/2008/05/28/google-app-engine-memcached-ff-to-go-bliss/#comment-545907Ahh I see--foot, meet mouth :) Still, it's cool stuff.ericfloWed, 28 May 2008 20:40:17 -0000http://benjamingolub.com/2008/05/28/google-app-engine-memcached-ff-to-go-bliss/#comment-545855Sorry, Disqus is not so great for code snippets :(ericfloWed, 28 May 2008 20:30:40 -0000http://benjamingolub.com/2008/05/28/google-app-engine-memcached-ff-to-go-bliss/#comment-545851I think you might be better off caching the entire response, as then subsequent requests don't even have to go through the template system, context processors, etc.<br><br>For example:<br><br>...<br>key = 'public_%i_%i_%s' % (num, start, service)<br>response = memcache.get(key)<br> if not response:<br> try:<br> data = f.fetch_public_feed(num=num, start=start, service=service)<br> except Exception, e:<br> return HttpResponseRedirect('/%s/' % e)<br> extra_context = {<br> 'entries': data['entries'],<br> ‘next’: start + num,<br> }<br> if start &gt; 0:<br> extra_context['has_previous'] = True<br> extra_context['previous'] = start - num<br> response = render_to_response(’public.html’, extra_context, context_instance=RequestContext(request))<br> memcache.set(key, response, CACHE_TIME)<br> return responseericfloWed, 28 May 2008 20:30:10 -0000http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2008/05/extending-user-model-profiles-in-django.php#comment-534096...but you'll have to do that every time you import User, correct?ericfloTue, 27 May 2008 04:04:18 -0000http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2008/05/extending-user-model-profiles-in-django.php#comment-533555I would rather use the dispatcher to automatically create UserProfile objects. For instance put this in your models.py file below UserProfile:<br><br>from django.db.models import signals<br>from django.dispatch import dispatcher<br><br>def create_userprofile(sender, instance):<br> defaults = {} # customize this for your defaults<br> UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)<br><br>dispatcher.connect(create_userprofile, sender=User, signal=signals.post_save)<br><br><br>Now what will happen is that every time User.save() gets called, this create_userprofile function will get called, creating a new UserProfile, as needed. This is a slightly more transparent solution than yours, in my opinion.ericfloTue, 27 May 2008 00:21:37 -0000