Archive: December, 2007 @ Irrational Exuberance

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Title: Miyajima and Hiroshima
Tags: japan travel
Some pictures and minimal commentary from my trip to Hiroshima and Miyajima.
Title: Designing My Future Home
Tags: architecture
Isn't it one of the great dreams of humans to design and build your own home? Well. I had a few ideas this morning and decided to put together a sketch.
Title: Another Breakfast With You
Tags: food
Another brief look at my recent cooking adventures...
Title: Another Slight Mistake...
Tags: blog
Got caught by a bit of an error which lead to my markdown superset not being coherently rendered, but its all fixed now. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!
Title: Merry Christmas 2007
Tags: food
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
Title: Moving Writings to Separate Flow
Tags: blog
The fiction writing didn't integrate well with the other content in the Life feed, and each made the other more confusing and less comprehensible. So the writings now exist <a href="http://www.lethain.com/writing/">in their own flow.</a>
Title: Two-Faced Django Part 7: PyFacebook and FBJS Ajax
Tags: Facebook PyFacebook django
Series: Two-Faced Django
The seventh (and final!) entry in the Two-Faced Django series. We look at implementing Ajax functionality in the Facebook app we have been developing with PyFacebook.
Title: Upgrading from 256 to 512 megs of ram
Tags: slicehost
Minor upgrade to my VPS from 256 to 512 megs of RAM. Things should be more stable.
Title: Two-Faced Django: Live install
Tags: PyFacebook django dreamhost
Series: Two-Faced Django
The example application built in this series is now alive and <a href="http://krit.willarson.com/">accessible</a>. Although, its extraordinarily bland. I will acknowledge that. The Facebook portion is also alive <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/twofaced/">here</a>.
Title: Two-Faced-Django Part 6: PyFacebook
Tags: Facebook PyFacebook django
Series: Two-Faced Django
The sixth section of the Two-Faced Django tutorial where we begin implementing the FaceBook portion of our project.
Title: Two-Faced Django Part 5: JQuery Ajax
Tags: JQuery django
Series: Two-Faced Django
Moving along in the Two-Faced-Django series, we look at using JQuery for Ajax in the webapp portion of our program.
Title: 4. Airplanes
Tags: writing
Series: Zen and the Art Of Teaching English Poorly
Its hard to know what to think about airplanes. But sometimes its harder to stop thinking when you're participating in their scientific magic.
Title: Two-Faced Django Part 4: The Webapp
Tags: django
Series: Two-Faced Django
Segment four of the Two-Faced Django series. Implementing our web application (except for the Ajax).
Title: Two-Faced Django Part 3: Newforms
Tags: django newforms
Series: Two-Faced Django
Part three of the Two-faced Django series looks at using newforms for validation.
Title: Two-Faced Django Part 2: Models and Django Testing
Tags: django testing
Series: Two-Faced Django
In the second part of this series we put together our models for this project, and also introduce the Django testing framework.
Title: Two-Faced Django Part 1: Building a project that exists simultaniously on Facebook and the web
Tags: PyFacebook django
Series: Two-Faced Django
The first article of an eight article series on using Django to create apps that exist simultaneously as independent web applications and as Facebook applications. This segment covers putting together our development setup.
Title: 3. Shuttle Busses
Tags: writing
Series: Zen and the Art Of Teaching English Poorly
The third segment of The Art of Teaching English Poorly. No more stellar than the first two, probably a bit worse, in-fact. Reflections on the people around the protagonist on a shuttle bus towards an airport.
Title: On Education, Self-Responsibility and Manure
Tags: education
Its a rare month that I don't find some angry article about the problems of universities in America. If only they did X, or they implemented policy Y. I have a suspicion though, that the fault with American universities lies in a much broader social problem.
Title: 2. Traffic Jams
Tags: writing
Series: Zen and the Art Of Teaching English Poorly
Sometimes we find relief in life's nuances... simply because they are predictable when nothing else can be relied upon. Part two of Zen and the Art of Teaching English Poorly.
Title: 1. Beginnings
Tags: writing
Series: Zen and the Art Of Teaching English Poorly
Chapter one of Zen and the Art of Teaching English Poorly. On beginnings.
Title: 0. Introduction
Tags: writing
Series: Zen and the Art Of Teaching English Poorly
Sometimes the urge to write strikes you, and you have to take that opportunity when its there. It won't always pan out. But thats expected.
Title: Using JQuery with Django for Autocomplete Fields
Tags: JQuery django
A rather rough and tumble walkthrough for using Django and JQuery to make autocomplete input fields.