Eric Moritz

Articles by Eric Moritz

1. 10+2*5 bash script

   I've been meaning to post this script for a while. It's a little bash script that I wrote to switch xmms playlists using Merlin Mann's 10+2*5 procrastination hack. It's could well be the greatest bit of code I've ever written.

   I've been ...

1. A cool google map/wiki mash up

   I found this the other day, it's pretty cool. You can create a personal map by clicking on the map and type in a description. read more | digg story

1. All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

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1. Announcing django-viewtools

   Hi, I'm announcing a project I have called django-viewtools

   django-viewtools provides a management command to help in debugging and profiling views

   Overview

   django-viewtools provides a number of management commands for debugging views.

   There are a number of flags that can be used when calling the view

   -d, --debug: This ...

1. appengine vs twitter

   So Glenn Franxman was opining this afternoon about how twitter is going to reach a point where they're going to grow to big and need to make money somehow. He said that they're either going to have to throw ads everywhere or hope to be aquired.

   He thinks ...

1. appengine vs twitter part 2

   I've created a project in launchpad for Meow. You can now submit bug reports and feature requests into launchpad.

   If your a Django or Appengine hacker and want to help me out, simply branch the Meow code with bazaar and you can "bzr send" me patches. I'll be ...

1. Back to Corporate

   To Celebrate my re-enter into Corporate life, I added a link category called "Corporate Fun". This is my request, comment to this posting with all your favorite Corp links, jokes, or what have you.

1. Batman Begins The Video Game

   We saw Batman Begins in the theaters the day it came out and we both thought it was the best batman movie ever. I don't know if my wife thinks the movie was good because of the quality of the fact that her boyfriend Christian Bale was batman. My ...

1. Been busy

   Phew,... I've been busy, I've finally gotten a breather to update my blog. Two weeks ago we launched`http://www.bonitanews.com`_. It is the first Ellington/Django site launched outside of World Online. We're very proud of it.

   Something else to be proud of, my ...

1. Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

   There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing instead of schooling. These are books that will close the gap for people that fall into the category of ...

1. Budgeting

   When I was younger budgeting was easier. The reason it was easier because I didn't use a bank account and I would simply put money in designated envelopes. Life was simple.

   Now that I'm a responsible adult, I have a bank account and I rarely have cash in ...

1. coastalbeat.com woot woot!

   So the past three days have been a blur. I got into work on Wednesday with forty-eight hours of work and twenty-four hours to do it. I was not letting the new site launch without the social app I've been writting for the past week or two. After staying ...

1. Deep Impact

   This is amazing, Nasa is smashing one of their space craft into the comet Tempel 1 in hopes to see what is inside it.

   I heard this on NPR this afternoon. They were interviewing a reporter from Sky and Telescope. Apparently if you live west of the Mississippi River you ...

1. Django Ajax and Dojo?

   The other day in the #django channel I was msg'd by Alex, a developer for the Dojo Javascript toolkit. (Have anyone noticed that javascript toolkits are popping up like crazy?). Well, Alex asked my, "Why are you using prototype.js for Django Ajax". I told him that I used ...

1. Django, Django, Django...

   This framework is so freakin' awesome.... They just enough documentation on the site that you can actually get things running without much effort.. I have to say, this is the coolest thing to come out in a long time. You have a object-relational mapping system, obsessive SEO support, a templating ...

1. Django, Dreamhost and FCGI

   There have been quite a few people in #django trying to get Django to work with Dreamhost. Thanks to the work that Hugo has done and the folks in the channel hacking away at the problem, the work has been posted on the Dreamhost wiki. Maybe now I can get ...

1. Django, lighttpd and FCGI, take two

   In case no one reads comments on my site, Hugo posted a comment about his second way of getting Django to work with lighttpd and fcgi (you mean people actually read my blog?) You can find that article here.

1. Django RSS

   From what I can tell, turning on RSS is very easy. Basically you setup a urlpattern like in http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/djangoproject.com/django_website/settings/urls/main.py and then make a module that is the same name as your settings module that ends in _rss, like so ...

1. django_ajax update

   From the reaction of the folks in the django irc channel, it seems that my Django_Ajax library is a little advanced, everyone wants the power of Ajax without having to write Javascript. I made the false assumption that anyone messing with Ajax would know Javascript.

   After taking a look at ...

1. Donating Bandwidth to Neighbors

   My neighbors across the street don't have Internet access so I volunteered my WPA password to them so that they can use my Internet. Today I decided to install a custom WRT54G firmware called CoovaAP to turn my router into an open hotspot like you would see in hotels ...

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