Category Archives: General

2012 Resolutions

Written on January 5, 2012 at 11:20 pm, by

I don’t normally make New Years resolutions, but this year, I’m going to set a few goals and see how I do. I’m so far off to a really good start with most of these. Move active projects to a Continuous Deployment system with Jenkins and write more unit tests. Increase my use of actionableContinue Reading

Merging forms from django-formwizard

Written on May 2, 2011 at 10:48 am, by

On a recent project, I was making use of the django-formwizard app and needed to be able to pull out any one of the fields from the series of forms. On the final step of one of the sample apps, it is suggested that you do something like: form_list = [form.cleaned_data for form in form_list]Continue Reading

OpenBlock for Ottawa

Written on November 24, 2010 at 10:55 pm, by

Ever since the open sourcing of Everyblock last year, I’ve been really keen to get an EveryBlock site setup for Ottawa. With the latest project from OpenPlans, OpenBlock (based on the Everyblock code) makes this a lot easier to get rolling. I’ve got a demo site up, and am in the process of parsing CanVecContinue Reading

Google goes OpenSocial

Written on October 31, 2007 at 7:45 am, by

Given that Zuckerburg has already indicated that they want to continue to open up Facebook, I think we can expect Facebook to rollout support for OpenSocial API calls in addition to their existing methods very shortly. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/177470827/ Powered by ScribeFire.

Collected Works on Wellington selling books at US Prices

Written on October 29, 2007 at 10:33 am, by

From a story in the Ottawa Citizen, The strength of the Canadian dollar — and of the complaints of customers — has led at least one Ottawa bookstore to cut prices, even if it means selling at a loss. Collected Works on Wellington Street decided this week to sell books at their listed U.S. prices,Continue Reading