Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 4:06 p.m.
So I've been working this past week on a new design for my website, and this is the result. It's minimalistic, simple and clean. And yes, it's Helvetica.
I like Helvetica. In the right hands, of course. Helvetica is like a scalpel. It's a precision instrument that can carve out really cool designs. Comic Sans, however, is a chainsaw. It's only purpose is to bring annoyance and pain to as many people as possible simultaneously.
So yeah, that's my new blog in a nutshell.
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 12:40 p.m.
Django is indeed an amazing framework. But one of the greatest new features of the 1.0 release is the ability to create your own django-admin actions (you know, the command line actions that do things like database syncing?). It's really handy for things that you do repeatedly.
The cool thing, though, is that since these are executed as just a normal python script, you can use cron to schedule them to happen automatically. This is really nice for things that I need done on a regular bases, like emailing users. I can create a model in Django for my email, set up a django-admin command to check to see if there are emails waiting to send, and then use cron to poll every now and then and send them out.
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 7:58 a.m.
It's been a while. I've been busy with class and work lately, but things are starting to slow down. Where shall I begin? Apple was incredible. Absolutely incredible. I cannot stress how much I loved being out there. It was sad to leave, but I came back with the knowledge that I was going back next summer. So happy. And as a plus, I get to work a little big on some projects for my team during the year if I have time.Class is going alright. The year seems like it'll be good. Fall break is fast approaching already, which I can't believe. Before you know it, it'll be Christmas break again!I'm working this year at our campus newspaper, the University Daily Kansan. (The best college newspaper in the country, IMHO). I am their "Web Coordinator/Online Manager", which basically means I run the software that in turn runs the website, and the web apps that we have. Right now I'm working hard at upgrading the online classifieds application, Hawkchalk. It's going fairly smoothly. Another major project is updates to the UDK Facebook Application. There's been a huge userbase grow out of just two months of usage. I think we're at about 1,000 users so far. All of the UDK's great webapps were originally written by my predecessor, a great guy named Ryan Berg. I just hope I can live up to his reputation.The Kansan is great. It's amazing (and a little unnerving) to me how good everyone is at their jobs... The ads staff (which I am a part of) is a well oiled machine.As for the remaining part of my time, I'm cooking dinner on Wednesdays again this year at the hall, which is great. Gives me yet another creative outlet. Walking around on campus, I wonder how people ever leave here. (I know the answer...tiredness from class...) It's so beautiful here in the fall. The weather right now is just right. 60-70 degrees, partly cloudy every day.Hmm...kind of a sparatic blog post, I know. But that's how I am. This just in! and such.