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Book Review: Django 1.0 Template Development

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:49 am. 0 Comments.

If you have ever looked for a book on the subject of Django templates, then a five minute search on the web will soon tell ...

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How the Web Sees Me

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 2:46 pm. 0 Comments.

Found an interesting article on the New Scientist web site yesterday about an MIT Musem exhibit called Metropath(ologies). In short the installation mines through data ...

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Dynamically Populate /etc/hosts in an AWS AMI

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 2:20 pm. 0 Comments.

I came across a problem recently when setting up some Fedora 8 Linux machine instances (AMIs) on Amazon's EC2 service regarding the setting of the ...

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Yum with Multiple Repos: yum-plugin-priorities on CentOS

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm. 0 Comments.

I am just putting a new development server together, using CentOS 5, and have come across the same headache as usual - managing standard ...

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Pie Charts with MySQL

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 4:14 pm. 1 Comment.

Hey... ... want to know how to do this with MySQL? [code gutter="false" light="true" wraplines="false"] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | pie_chart ...

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Getting Weather Information with Python

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 10:37 am. 2 Comments.

I was searching around this morning for a method of getting sunrise/sunset times into a set of python and bash scripts I am writing to ...

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Rob Smith’s Curry and Late Night Python

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 8:09 am. 0 Comments.

This morning, I am suffering. It is the consequence of having visited Rob Smith's house last night - (his lamb meat ball curries are legendarily ...

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Loading Schemata From *.sql Files Into MySQL

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 8:29 am. 0 Comments.

I have recently been working a lot with MySQL stored procedures. I tend to write them up first in a text editor - textpad or ...

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Setting up a DB Class With PDO

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 8:43 pm. 5 Comments.

I have had the opportunity to use PDO to connect to a MySQL DB at work recently. One requirement of the project was to provide ...

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Vim Does Not Clean Your Bathroom

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 10:32 pm. 0 Comments.

I have been using Vim today. No it is not a bathroom cleaning product from Belgium, it is an Improvement on VI, that great institution ...

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Adventures in the Land of PDO

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 1:40 pm. 0 Comments.

I have just started investigating the possibilities of using PHP5's 'PHP Data Objects', or PDO, as a way of accessing databases. This has come after ...

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A test of syntax highlighting, and my first post

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 11:52 pm. 0 Comments.

Well this is my first post here, and I thought that it would be good to try out the syntax highlighting plugin I have installed.

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