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Re: Ponytech - Migrate your user profile data to Django 1.5 custom user model

Toby Champion — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:07:48 -0000

Nice work. Thanks for this.

Re: The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum

Toby Champion — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:27:50 -0000

I can't imagine how annoying and distracting it would be to be teaching a classroom full of gum-munching students. I think gum-chewing looks and sounds disgusting. My hatred for the students would no doubt offset any advantage to their learning that gum-chewing might have.

Re: Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?

Toby Champion — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:14:02 -0000

But someone did. Someone clearly put a lot of time and effort into the logo, instead of just doing something minimal. I must admit to being quite sensitive to branding. The bad logo, the nasty desktop backgrounds almost put me off even bothering with Mint on first install. It smelt of amateurism.

Re: Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?

Toby Champion — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:06:19 -0000

Love Mint, but agreed. Their logo is totally crap. Looks like a
graphic-design-challenged geek spent some time learning some graphics
package and sadly got away with it. Not only that, the default Mint
desktop background also has another, equally crap logo right next to it.
Without rhyme or reason.

Re: Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?

Toby Champion — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:06:00 -0000

Love Mint, but agreed. Their logo is totally crap. Looks like a graphic-design-challenged geek spent some time learning some graphics package and sadly got away with it. Not only that, the default Mint desktop background also has another, equally crap logo right next to it. Without rhyme or reason.

Re: Crowd Interactive Tech Blog :: How to install Postgresql 8.4 in a Vagrant box

Toby Champion — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:31:24 -0000

I think mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data needs to be mkdir -p ...

Re: Crowd Interactive Tech Blog :: How to install Postgresql 8.4 in a Vagrant box

Toby Champion — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:31:04 -0000

I think mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data needs to be mkdir -p ...

Re: The Why and How of Automated Testing with Python and Django - Brighton and Hove Python User Group - blip.tv

Toby Champion — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:34:23 -0000

Best video ever. Can't see the screen. Lots of crotch and beer.

I'm enjoying the talk though. Are the slides available?

Re: Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter

Toby Champion — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:44:09 -0000

http://www.photosynth.net/ may be what you're looking for.

Re: Conference: PyCon 2011 Keynote!

Toby Champion — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:06:27 -0000

Hilary Mason, The Brian Cox of Computer Science. Fantastic choice of keynote speaker.

Re: Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0 [video]

Toby Champion — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:22:10 -0000

I love Andrew Tait's voice. I'd believe anything and everything he says.

Re: Bye Bye, Long Tail

Toby Champion — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:49:02 -0000

Agreed. Moving to a town of 8,000 people here in Poulsbo, WA, with a Walmart store and a shopping Mall just out of town, I'm often the only pedestrian I see all day. I guess I'm kind of amnesic, but each time I go the godawful Mall I realize all over again where everyone is.

Re: Bye Bye, Long Tail

Toby Champion — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:44:07 -0000

Sure, it's inconvenient for a shopper to drive to 10 stores. Much less so to WALK around a small town center. Living somewhere with a Walmart store just out of town, and no basic groceries on sale downtown, if I heard someone round here use your point #2 in an argument I'd probably die laughing.

Re: Feature Switches in Django with Gargoyle

Toby Champion — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:57:28 -0000

As Nick's related below, a colleague and I have been working on an as-yet-unreleased Django plugin that offers functionality that overlaps with yours. What do you suggest I do to help make the world a better place in this light?

https://github.com/tobych/d...

Re: coding-conventions | Documentation Wiki

Toby Champion — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:41:36 -0000

If you're wondering about using PHP exceptions in SilverStripe, see this thread (and others, I'm sure): http://groups.google.com/gr...

Re: installation-into-subversion | Documentation Wiki

Toby Champion — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:53:11 -0000

Once you've edited the properties, as above, you'll need to run 'svn update' to get the external files.

Subsequently, assuming you're using tags/ or you're not bothered about updating from a branch/, you can speed things up when you update your working copy by asking svn to ignore the externals: svn update --ignore-externals.

Re: email | Documentation Wiki

Toby Champion — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:57:29 -0000

Use comma separation in your argument to setTo() to send your email to multiple recipients.

Re: requirements | Documentation Wiki

Toby Champion — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:58:22 -0000

By default, SilverStripe includes all Javascript files at the bottom of the page body. If this causes problems for you, for example if you're using animation that ends up showing everything until the bottom of the page loads, or shows buttons before pushing them will actually work, you can change this behaviour:

In your controller's init() function, call:

Requirements::set_write_js_to_body(false);

See http://api.silverstripe.org...

Re: Docs For Class Email

Toby Champion — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:26:10 -0000

I wrote about using Email::obfuscate() in this forum post:
http://silverstripe.org/gen...

Re: Ian From The London Underground Vs An Elderly Man

Toby Champion — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:24 -0000

Anger management training needed.

Re: simplehtmleditorfield | Documentation Wiki

Toby Champion — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:19:59 -0000

Oops. I asked a question. Well, let's call it a tip! If you're looking to use paragraphs in this field, see the forum.

Re: Facebook Username Rush Imminent: What YOU Need to Know

Toby Champion — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:26:04 -0000

That's not the case. Domain names (eg www.TobyCh.com) are case-insensitive, but whether whatever comes after the domain name (and the /) it is case-sensitive depends on the website. I don't know whether the FaceBook usernames are gonna be case sensitive. I imagine they'll just redirect to the canonical form (ie the one the user chose).

Re: tutorial:3-forms | Documentation Wiki

Toby Champion — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:33:35 -0000

I've fixed the 'User Defined Form' vs 'Contact form' issue described by earlier posts.