Blog from the Loft

I am coverting a J2EE application over to django. The existing app uses Textile as a simple markup for user text input. After installing pytextile (which is under ownership change at the moment), I found a problem using it:
The “textile” filter works for strings and strings retrieved from my database, but when I try to [...]

[Read more →]

I was at a conference today, held at a top class hotel. I had a lot of calls to make (or is it that I keep checking my emails?). Near the end of the day I am in dangerous red territories regarding battery life. I went to the concierge to see if they have a [...]

[Read more →]

Is the new iPod touch a fancy iPod music player, or is it an application platform that will become the next PDA of choice, the nex Palm Killer for the tech bunch? You decide.

[Read more →]

Being an old school multi platform kinda person, I use emacs. Lately I have been doing some serious Python programming on my laptop running Windows XP. I never got python-mode to work under emacs, version 21.3 or so, the released version from 2003. With the increase amount of coding, I wanted python mode –
Version [...]

[Read more →]

I finally upgraded to Firefox 2. It has more built-in features so I need to use less of add-ons. One of the most use feature for me is tabbed browsing. I used to use “tab mix plus” on 1.x firefox to fine tune tabbed browsing. Now most of the features are included in the base [...]

[Read more →]

I finally got my home digital music solution implemented. You’ll need:

one 20inch Apple iMac
iTunes
FrontRow
Logitech Harmony 880 Remote Control
A sound system with a receiver that supports digital music input (e.g. an Onkyo TX-SR674 7.1 Channel Up-Converting A/V Receiver

Three key things make this work:

the iMac screen is big enough to be used across the room when [...]

[Read more →]

Blogging online directly sometimes deter writing longer posts. After some research I am going to give BlogJet a try. First thing first, configuration is not as easy as it seems. I have my own server installation of wordpress. BlogJet will not auto detect my server. I need to manually configure the account by specifying:

select “WordPress” [...]

[Read more →]

What? No? Sure, the iPhone is “cool”, “unbelievable”. I agree. But all the buzz is shadowing the really important Apple product — Apple TV. This is such a well conceived device. It solves ALL of my home media management problem, and I am not even a Mac user. What will the Apple TV do?

I can [...]

[Read more →]

The Gadgeteer is one of the gadget review sites that I read often. They offer many no nosense review of stuff that I actually use. For years the two writers, Julie Strietelmeier and Judie Hughes seems like a great pair of blogging partners. I also find the fact that their names are similar give the [...]

[Read more →]

Any developer knows, the process of upgrading software tools always starts a chain reaction. I have been using Hibernate 2.x for a long time, and finally decided to update to 3.x, largely to make use of the supposingly better tool set available for Eclipse. After installing Hibernate 3, I started to install the Hibernate Tool [...]

[Read more →]