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Entries from August 2008

I called it one month ago.. all you can eat iTunes

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · iphone, mac

Look at my post way back in July here. A month later and CNET is talking about it?

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Things on the iPhone now Sync with Desktop

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · iphone

I meant to blog about this for a long time. Things.app is, IMHO, the best GTD app for the Mac. I have been using the beta for a very long time. In fact my GTD system is on it. When the iPhone 3G is announced, the folks at CulturedCode started working on a version specifically [...]

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3 year old is programming Scratch sprite

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments · scratch_kids

It happened. Once they discovered the drawing tool for sprite, they are all over drawing. “The Art Thing” the three year old calls it. She doodle some lines, and then want to make it move. I showed her once or twice that she needs the “flag” orange block and the “loop block” first, then stuff [...]

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Serving favicon in an Django App using Apache

August 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · django

I got a free few minutes to work on my own site here. Since I migrated the site from all static pages to Django served, I still haven’t put back the favicon icon back onto the site. The sites runs under a virtual host in apache2 at WebFaction. This is what you need to put [...]

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Resetting Django Admin Password

August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · django

This barely qualifies for a blog post, but what to do if you loaded, via django-admin.py loaddata
a full json file from someone during testing, and don’t have their user’s password?
Just run the django-admin.py shell, and by hand reset all the passwords:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
for u in Users:
u.set_password(’secret’)
u.save()
That’s why you have to keep your shell login [...]

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Scratch Conference at MIT

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · scratch

Scratch is a programing language and environment designed by the MediaLab for used by young children. It is best described as a tool for making programmable media. It is used not just for programming as you know it, but for making games, telling stories, making dynamic artwork.

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