We need a thoughout integration of the desktop and the web - not Tab Candy superfast jellyfish

28 July 2010

'Tab Candy' is a high level graphical user interface that might make it into a future version of Firefox. Lord help us all if it does.

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Taming Firefox memory usage

15 June 2010

Firefox uses a lot of my computers memory, here are the things I looked at to put it right.

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Calling time on mobile internet nonsense?

12 June 2010

Are Mobile Internet plans fair?

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Can't win here

04 June 2010

In the recent election, some of the parties put charts into their literature. In this post I analyse their accuracy.

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Let us contemplate existence

23 May 2010

I continue my review of the book "Programming the Semantic Web". In this post look at the key topic of ontologies.

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Still swimming in the Semantic Web

23 May 2010

I continue my review of the book "Programming the Semantic Web". In this post we talk about RDFs.

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Metadata is our data

19 May 2010

In my last post, I talked about talking some first tentative steps into the semantic web. Two of the commentators suggested that I should check out the book "Programming the Semantic Web" published by O'Reilly. In this post I talk about what I have read so far.

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Headfirst into the Semantic Web

12 May 2010

OWL is the Web Ontology Language. In this post I talk about available Python modules working with OWL.

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Cross Site Request Forgery protection in Django

07 May 2010

Stopping Django's Cross Site Request Forgery protection from breaking your site.

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AMD64 Ubuntu 10.04 and Flash

07 May 2010

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit version and then installed Flash, I then found Firefox crashing randomly. This post explains the solution.

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A basic search box with Django

29 November 2009

This post explains how I made the simple search box for this site using Django.

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Bazaar version script

28 November 2009

I talk about my Bazaar version script, use it in any Python package that is version controlled using Bazaar, then the user of a package can easily see an automatically generated minor version number.

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Making a Django form field using aggregated values

18 November 2009

The Django admin list_filter function provides a nice way of searching by the contents of fields. How do we implement that in the public side of a web application?

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Countries in Django

17 November 2009

In this post I talk about the CountryField that I used in my Django application.

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This week - sheep are not going to destroy the world

19 October 2009

The latest installment in my series about what I have read on the Internet recently. We look at computing after applications, the problem of spam email, whether cows and sheep will end the world and whether Linux will save it.

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Three classic command line tips

17 October 2009

In this post we look at downloading a real player stream, checking your HTTP headers and coping with memory hogging Java programs.

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Mobile Wireless Questions and Answers

21 June 2009

Some interesting questions and answers from my local Linux Group, the responses were written by Linux wireless expert Quentin Wright.

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Visualising your favourite keywords in Twitter

18 June 2009

Having Twitter messages splat over your screen is great at home, at a party or club. Here are some cool sites that allow you to do that.

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Greatest Ever Free Books

28 May 2009

The web is full of free e-books. However are they any good? Read this post to find out.

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My Twitter tag clouds

28 May 2009

In this post I make some tag clouds from my Twitter account.

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Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!

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Cupcake

July 31, 2010
Good post! You helped me a lot with my school project! CountryField(blank = True) < (K)
Countries in Django

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July 30, 2010
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Email Syntax Check in Python

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July 30, 2010
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July 30, 2010
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July 30, 2010
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July 30, 2010
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July 30, 2010
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Dion Moult

July 29, 2010
What I do know is that ever since I tried out Opera and put their tab bar on the left as a column, I've loved that layout. Back on Firefox ...
We need a thoughout integration of the desktop and the web - not Tab Candy superfast jellyfish

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July 29, 2010
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How not to program WSGI

Giacomo

July 29, 2010
Honestly, I think both Mozilla and you are wrong :) This sort of concept adds overhead. A user would have to manage all this crap, constantly dragging and dropping, creating ...
We need a thoughout integration of the desktop and the web - not Tab Candy superfast jellyfish

Matija "hook" Šuklje

July 29, 2010
As a minimalist, you'll probybly moan if I mention KDE, but I'll do so anyway ;) The future I want (and actually see slowly fold out before me) is to ...
We need a thoughout integration of the desktop and the web - not Tab Candy superfast jellyfish

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July 28, 2010
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July 28, 2010
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We need a thoughout integration of the desktop and the web - not Tab Candy superfast jellyfish

Tech News

July 25, 2010
Thanks for this short tutorial...was auto-FTPing my files from my appserver to webserver for my tech news website. Everything was OK until someone hacked it. Hosting provider is now recommending ...
SFTP in Python: Really Simple SSH

naypalm

July 24, 2010
During the past 3-4 years, I and many others have enjoyed unlimited 2G/3G internet. But ever since the massive cult-like following of i Phone users in the US, most cellular ...
Calling time on mobile internet nonsense?

Steve

July 15, 2010
Very occasionally, you will run into a Java program that uses a lot of memory just to hold all the classes used. It turns out that the JVM uses a ...
Three classic command line tips

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July 14, 2010
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An Introduction to ReStructuredText