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Comment on Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by safe

safe — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:51:39 +0000

@chris Indeed, and I have a hunch that we might see more books like this. Depending on the nature and scale of a project, I often feel that a software developer is less like a programmer and more like a chef choosing and pulling together many different ingredients to build a system.

- Safe

Comment on Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by Chris Lyon

Chris Lyon — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:23:51 +0000

Nice to see books starting to on the relationships between disperate software packages.

Comment on The Circles of Satisfaction by Chris Lyon

Chris Lyon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:31:45 +0000

To be honest the train from Crewe to Bangor does most of the work on Monday morning and Friday evening, and the cycling certainly beats a session at the gym from the point of view of fitness.

Personal Impact perhaps?

Without launching a model that looks like a kids first attempt with bubble liquid it would be difficult to really get it nailed properly. Then, of course, there is the rhythms involved. How does a Monday morning level of enjoyment compare with a pre bank holiday afternoon.
But this is mere hair splitting. I think you’ve produced something important and I can see this as the start of a whole University department if you play your cards right !

Comment on The Circles of Satisfaction by safe

safe — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:12:35 +0000

@Chris Convenience is the metric I grappled with the most, both in name and meaning. It’s meant to be a catch-all for activities related/peripheral to the job but not the actual job itself. Other suggestions for the name of this metric would be gratefully received.

The Cheshire, Bangor, Caernarvon biking combo sounds quite hectic but hopefully it’ll get even more rewarding as the weather improves … !

Comment on The Circles of Satisfaction by Chris Lyon

Chris Lyon — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:36:54 +0000

Convenience is an interesting metric.

How does one score living in Cheshire, working in Bangor, sleeping in Caernarvon and getting between the last two on a bike? Hardly convenient but strangely rewarding.

Comment on Will MongoDB Save The Day? by ehcache.net

ehcache.net — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:15:59 +0000

Will MongoDB Save The Day?…

I’m greatly looking forward to attending tomorrow’s MongoUK, the UK meeting for MongoDB, one of a new breed of so called document-oriented databases. I thought I’d pen a few thoughts about MongoDB and document-oriented databases in general before the m…

Comment on Cracks on the surface by safe

safe — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:33:25 +0000

@drj Many thanks! That sounds like a plausible part-explanation. And thank you for the word “dentritoid” which I feel is vastly underused in the English language. In fact a google for this word today brings up this article as the top hit! Safe.

Comment on Cracks on the surface by David Jones

David Jones — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:56:58 +0000

A very well observed photo, thanks!

The inner part looks a bit like it might have been made by a grain of road grit falling onto the ice and melting it. Can’t really explain the dendritoid polynas though.

Pretty.

Comment on Django-Hessian by The Safety Net » Hessian RPC Services. What’s not to like?

The Safety Net » Hessian RPC Services. What’s not to like? — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:17:01 +0000

[...] byproduct of this is a django-hessian, a library which enables the serving of Hessian objects in Django. Objects can be served using a [...]

Comment on PyWeek 11 by safe

safe — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:09:59 +0000

I’ve yet to try the other games. The day after the end of pyweek my other half and I scootled off on holiday. Happily we’re back well before the judging deadline. This means that for a few days I can bask in the glory of having finished a simple game before realising that the other teams have written creations to rival Doom! I think there are 40 games in total and I’m looking forward to playing them all!

- Safe