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WordPress theme – The Anatomy, an Infographic – Yoast

Monday, March 19th, 2012

A nice overview of the WordPress Template system.

WordPress theme – The Anatomy, an Infographic – Yoast.

What I learned at the 2012 Seafood and Wine Fest

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

Over the last few days I have been spending a lot of time at the Newport Seafood and Wine Fest. As a memeber of the Newport Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals I volunteer to work in a booth. This year I also had my own product to demo there, Barleyboard. (more…)

South Database Migration Workflow

Friday, January 27th, 2012

My workflow for Django and South. I always forget how to do this. See http://south.aeracode.org/docs/tutorial/part1.html#converting-existing-apps for more info.
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Matplotlib and Plotting Matrices

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

For one of the projects I am working I needed a web application to produce dynamically generated geo-spatial overlays on Google Maps. From my graduate school days using Matlab I knew how to produce the geo-spatial figures. So I set about doing this in Matplotlib on a Ubuntu 10.04 server with a Linux, MySQL, Apache, Python/Django stack. The generated images are then displayed on a Google Maps as a GroundOverlay.
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The Node Beginner Book » A comprehensive Node.js tutorial

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

var url = require”url”;

via The Node Beginner Book » A comprehensive Node.js tutorial.

Nice tutorial on node.js.

Installing node.js on Ubuntu 10.04

I followed the instructions here. Make sure you instal the 0.6.7 version if you want to use socket.io.

You may need to install libssl-dev

sudo apt-get libssl-dev

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