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New design and a blog post
24th August, 2008
Blog, Django, Life,
It's been quite some time since I last blogged, and the website design that I last did, was becoming tired, and it just didn't work right (and never was going to work right for something like the TV Calendar.
So I decided it was time for a new design, something simple, be something appealing, and vibrant. I think I've achieved this, but there is a few things that still need to be fixed (such as TV Calendar - but it will last for now).
I've been making small changes to the back end of late, mainly to keep in line with the Backwards Incompatible Changes, but also to keep some of the page load times down. The next big task I have to do, will be to modify the sight to cache in memory the majority of the pages. Currently it only does this for a few select pages, but to help improve speed, this could easily be done to more!
Anyway, have a look at the new design, and if you have any feedback, greatly apreciated, especially if it doesn't render correctly in your browser of choice (which usually i vet my designs in IE as well as firefox, this time i just made sure it worked in firefox). I do suspect there will be problems with the Transparent PNG in the page title from anything less than IE 7, but then that is IE for you ... Maybe I will make it a GIF, If i get enough complaints.
In other news, my iPhone is going well, event if the battery life in it does suck. I have been looking around at the internals, and it appears it stores most of the information inside it in a SQLite DB, which means that I will easily be able to write some scripts to automatically export that data out into a proper system. Of course when I get some time :-) [If only one could buy blocks of additional time in a day...]
Something else I plan to have a look at is getting a budget HTPC working, with the ability to stream XVID files over a network to it, in order to play it on a widescreen TV. The computer I have to do it, is only a 1.2GHZ, but im hoping that will be enough for basic stuff (my old 1ghz machine could play xvids...) Planning on having the machine run Arch Linux, and XFCE as the desktop manager, and then mplayer for the streaming. Again, when I have time .. :-(
Anyway, that's all for now. Just making sure I get a blog entry in for this month ;)
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25th August, 2007
XBOX, Django, IRC, Life, Arch Linux, University,
So I noticed tonight that I haven't blogged in over a month, and decided it was about time I did.
Lately I have been working quiet a bit, especially now that I've finished Uni, and have lots of free time. In the other time, I've been working on implementing some changes for an IRC network, as well as test and try to document and get things in order.
I have started using del.icio.us, when I remember atleast, to record some of those sites which contain facts that you really want to store. I also wrote a importer and application so this can be viewed (and commented on!), on this site. You can view it at www.nullis.net/links, tho it does not look very pretty.. yet!
Speaking of Uni, my graduation has been finalised and I am able to add B.CompSc. to my name after the 25th of September! Mind you, I am going to end up spending more than $150 on just plaque and photos from the graduation. But they do look good!
Meanwhile, DNS for all my domains, (except this one ironically), has been switched over to being hosted by myself. For some of the sites, I am using ZoneEdit still as backup nameservers to increase reliability.
I also recently got the Die Hard Game for the XBOX. Graphics suck. When I put it on to play, I had to check I wasn't playing the SEGA...
Also, Facebook is rather addictive! That is all..
Transition complete!
So, after some comments of encouragement, I finally got the proverbial finger out, and made enough changes so my new site is now ready for the public.
There are a few things that I know still need to be fixed, and coming soon, but this will occur with time.
If you do notice any bugs, please leave them as a comment on this entry, or if you feel it better to email, then send an email off to praetorian at this domain.
Thanks!
Transition to Django
7th March, 2007
Blog, Django, Linux, Python,
Having been working on my django based blog for some time now, (when I haven't been busy), I have finally gotten to the stage where transition is almost upon us!
I am yet to properly finish the comments system on it, as I am still unsure how to go about this, but everything else is in place, from the design, to the conversion script. The conversion script is actually quite neat. From a SQL Dump of a wordpress blog, it can successfully transform it into a python list of tuples, from which another script reads this into django.
In other news, Linode improved their value for money, so I went out and got myself one. Maybe thats where the new site will be in future :-)