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have gotten so used to life without commercials that when i see them now, i watch them attentively like they're little short films
Ugh I confess I had the opposite reaction to the ads on cable tv the other night...it was like here's 2mins of some show u wanna see and then 10 mins of annoying ads about things u'll never want at 20db louder volume than the show...ok that's probably enough whining about our wonderful world of consumerism for now. Merry Xmas!!!
- Bryan Landers
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Deploying Tornado in production - http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2009...
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Have you (maybe at Lincoln Loop) had a chance to work with any non-blocking server tech (Tornado, Twisted, node.js...)? Just curious :)
- Bryan Landers
I haven't personally and I'm not aware of any of our projects that are using any either. Yann Malet played around with Tornado during the sprint days at DjangoCon and wrote up a little demo: http://lincolnloop.com/blog... That was really just experimentation though. I know a couple of the guys have also been playing around with node.js...
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- Brian Luft
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I saw that Tornado in Django post and this bookmark in FF here, so I thought you might have your eyes on it ;) Very exciting stuff and it seems like there will be demand for it in future web apps...real-time mania!
- Bryan Landers
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Hadn't seen that - thanks! Now the question in my mind is js vs python vs something else (erlang...)
- Bryan Landers
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It will be interesting to see how things play out. I'm more pessimistic toward investing too much into js (node.js) or erlang in the short term which has more to do with my perception that the Python ecosystem is much more mature at the moment in terms of libraries, frameworks, tools, and simply mindshare around managing and organizing projects. My gut feeling is that doing anything...
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- Brian Luft
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cufón - fonts for the people - http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generat...
"Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use."
- Bryan Landers
Works on iPhone, too!
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Softpress: Powerful, easy to use web design software for Mac OS X - http://www.softpress.com/
interesting. i often wonder why it's so difficult (still) to put websites together. i mean, i live comfortably in TextMate, but for "normal folks", i never know what to suggest for simple webdesign. (as well as ftp/hosting/database/etc -- shouldn't this be dead easy by now?)
- nate beaty
my friend who was a corporate graphic designer for years mentioned he uses this. sounded like it converts photoshop to xhtml/css, which sounded cool...haven't looked at it yet though ;) re: simple web design, the closest thing out there is http://squarespace.com, but even that isn't enough for most people. i've had clients turn that down because: 1. they wanted it 'more custom' than...
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- Bryan Landers
i'd also say that 95% of those people that don't want templates but want a fancy site also don't think it's worth the amount it would cost to pay a professional to do the work for them. definitely still a large gray area.
- nate beaty
then again, it's also very common for those folks to have no idea of the amount of work involved on their end to come up with *content* to fill that site, both initial content and ongoing updates! (who's getting bitter? haha.)
- nate beaty
nail on the head, my friend ;)
- Bryan Landers
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Super Punch: January 2009 - http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009_01...
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whoa. this page has so much stuff on it (much of it interesting)...it never seems to stop loading!
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@boucher /me raises hand for LA Cappuccino meetup. Oh, and there's an LA Django meetup at Mahalo in Santa Monica on Tuesday.
Thanks for mentioning that...I hadn't seen the meetup announcement!
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What Are Your Favorite Podcasts? - http://bryanlanders.posterous.com/what-ar...
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(500) Days of Summer
Great writing, nice graphics, solid performances. This movie manages to have a strong emotional impact with a minimal amount of information. Gordon-Levitt is carving out a notable body of work.
- Bryan Landers
Re: Backstory on the Umair Haque hang, plus: why social media is underhyped - http://www.ethanbauley.com/post...
"It seems to me you can break down a culture, which on it's own is a dynamic, living thing, into 2 useful divisions: what it is and has been up until now, and what it will become. For integrating new members into a culture (I'm thinking of Joss Whedon show fans as well as Ethan's new employer, HP) you have schema (the Kantian version, I think it is), which is the knowledge that the newcomer is assumed to share with others in the culture, and the knowledge base shared by the existing members. Regarding schema, that's more about hiring and assessing cultural fit and aligned needs, and I'm sure there are tools and advice for that (I don't have much experience there). But, the knowledge base part is where you can find a lot of the tools you were expressing interest in discussing. If the culture is exclusive, inner-culture knowledge will be actively kept hidden from the new member (or it can become part of an initiation test to seek and discover the inside jokes, ideas, and concepts within..."
- Bryan Landers
And now for something completely different: Ikea run for dinner.
Meatballs and soft serve ice cream...
- Bryan Landers
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There's Ice Cream!? I brought some frozen meatballs home, so maybe we'll have to do that at home.
- Kris Kowal
Oh yes, and soft serve is nice treat after the Ikea experience before heading out into a hot Los Angeles afternoon...the only drawback I remember is that you have to pony up for bags if bought stuff so you aren't trying to hold the melting ice cream in the same hand as the coat hangers, milk frother, patterned napkins, sheepskin rug, and assorted cookware like some kind of comedy sketch!
- Bryan Landers
T-shirts make pretty good pillowcases but turn into creepy, oblong, legless bed mannequins.
Somebody needs to do their laundry...although it was all worth it for the description, "creepy, oblong, legless bed mannequins!"
- Bryan Landers
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Btw, what's an example of a non-creepy bed mannequin?
- Bryan Landers
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why, a sexy bed mannequin, of course.
- nate beaty
well played ;)
- Bryan Landers
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This could not be more true. Design Hell: http://theoatmeal.com/comics.... This is also my new favorite site btw.
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Sometimes comics are too close to reality...not sure whether to laugh or cry...also, I vote to ban comic sans for all purposes indefinitely.
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Re: Dorsey's Square, I thought the next move would be we just use our phones as payment devices. Plastic cards are just extra items to tote.
I like everything about it except the hardware and cards. I want the system to just require only the phones! The thing about being easier for merchants - what merchant that thinks it's too much hassle to get setup with a gateway is going to buy a fancy new swiper and an iPod touch or whatever? And for those who don't need the swiper, how is this different from PayPal/Amazon/Google? No plastic required.
- Bryan Landers
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Glad u want phone payments, too, btw ;)
- Bryan Landers
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Daughter is miserably sick. We are slighly less so. Enlisted Grandparent Daycare (tm).
Get well, team Gazit!
- Bryan Landers
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Superfeedr Blog : A new Architecture - http://blog.superfeedr.com/api...
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Great info in here, Julien. Thanks for being so transparent. Exciting stuff!
- Bryan Landers
We're all about being transparent :) To be fair, I love it when I find out that someone is using us without even knowing it!
- Julien
Yup, I noticed the Posterous and BackType PSHB hubs, so that will probably happen more frequently for you. Is there anywhere you're compiling references to people using Superfeedr (like apps that make use of it for real-time products, etc)?
- Bryan Landers
We're currently working on that... but many of them want to keep that 'stealth'.
- Julien
Playing with Pig -- processing some large @backtype data sets :)
no fair...you guys get to play with so much cool stuff :P
- Bryan Landers
It should be against the law for someone to make insanely good-smelling food this late at night in an appartment building. Now I'm hungry!
try living just off a street with 3 amazing persian restaurants...whatever they do to the meat in there daily smells freaking amazing!!
- Bryan Landers
i hate it when people have screencasts/video tutorials without a text transcript. it just makes me hate them.
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good point. i'll try to remember that.
- Bryan Landers
Was just requested to "add more Smilies" to a website. File at the very bottom of a long list stored in a folder marked "Hell No."
smilies cost extra...more than you can afford actually...mmk.
- Bryan Landers
okay, eating dinner was a bad idea.
uh oh.
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MySpace UX FAIL.
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Wow, if a javascript confirm() won't believe you, WHO WILL???
- Micah Wittman
Yup, and 1 chance to pick a username?! Pity the person who makes a typo at this moment. Anytime you resort to this type of language and interaction in your messaging, it should be taken as an indication that your UX has gone crapola.
- Bryan Landers
myspace has long been my go-to for what NOT to do in UX.
- nate beaty
i said essentially the same thing to a friend the other day, his response: "if you're a band, what else is there?" muxtape.com came to mind, but he's right, it's come down to band pages and It's Too Painful To Migrate Elsewhere users.
- nate beaty
Aha. Now this conversation is getting interesting. So, in answer to, "if you're a band, what else is there?" I have too long an answer, but the short version is: EVERYWHERE! I recently helped 2 musician friends with their own destination sites/hubs (artist_name_dot_com), each of which used no less than 5 other web services (Twitter, Flickr, ArtistData, Facebook, MySpace, Vimeo,...
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- Bryan Landers
that sounds like a band that makes money and has some PR muscle! either that or they know a webgeek or are tech-savvy themselves. but you're right, getting yourself out there these days requires one foot in many services.
- nate beaty
Riffing w/ buddy abt consulting services sales strategy, service offerings, niches to target for growth. Same but diff issues here in India.
curious to hear what other issues might be...if you care to share ;)
- Bryan Landers
π in the oven. it didn't look right going in, and i don't expect it will look right coming out. let's just call this science, shall we?
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(it came out fine)
- Kris Kowal
missed you at the LA django meetup, bud! i accept pie as repayment though, so you're in luck...
- Bryan Landers
yeah. I didn't know about it until a few hours beforehand, and I'm a little sick. I have much pie to make in atonement.
- Kris Kowal
that's what ryan mentioned, too (late notice)...i think jacob posted to our djangoLA goog group, but his hub is over on meetup, so...well, you would have been a very welcome participant. they made noises about doing more and with big django stars as guests, so i'll ping you next time to bully you into coming to the west side ;)
- Bryan Landers
oh, and get well!
- Bryan Landers
Photos of the LA Django meetup as discovered by Everyblock http://la.everyblock.com/photos....
haha nice. yeah that's creepily using the location of my apartment where i posted the photos (if only it could know where i took them!) everyblock still looks so good to me. i hadn't noticed that they are now, "wholly owned by msnbc.com," as seen here: http://www.everyblock.com/about....
- Bryan Landers
Doing a slidesprint before the Django meetup so I'll a) have something to share b) will only only partially look like an idiot
curious to hear what you were planning to share. i'm a little bummed i didn't catch you until the very end. i'll put together a blog post re: django project best practices and loop you in on that soon. cheers!
- Bryan Landers
i second bryan - hope you will present next time!
- esther
I was going to talk about Python package management and specifically using virtualenv and pip. It's a bit of a broad subject to try to hastily cram into a few slides and I wasn't sure what skill levels people would be at. I'm glad I waited because I think adding a few visuals would help out. Next time :) Thanks for the encouragement!
- Brian Luft
...also for reminding me I have a friendfeed account.
- Brian Luft
+1 to talk about virtualenv and pip. Pinax uses them extensively, and sometimes people are confused about why it installs everything even Django, and where it installs it.
- Andrew Kurinnyi
I hope you guys stick around with me on FriendFeed a bit longer (post-Facebook acquisition). There's just a handful of folks I interact with over here, but the conversation and content discovery is great. Follow http://friendfeed.com/ericflo for more Django stuffs and FF activity ;)
- Bryan Landers
The best advice you can give your little boy about what to do if he makes a girl classmate angry at recess: "--cover-package"
bah!
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