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Table of contents Summary Pros and cons Get started Results Alternatives Approach Conclusion Summary Amazon S3 is an affordable, web-scale storage.

Table of contents Summary Motivation Pros and cons Results Alternatives Research Approach Conclusion Summary Update: Steve Jalim has kindly continued my work on this over at the torchbox GitHub.

Update 2012/01: I still haven't started working on this project and I've heard much interest from others.

Update: Thanks to Avazu for a clean suggestion and Fred for pointing out I should have indicated a good way to get around this.

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Data migration is a complicated problem.

Sometimes you want to use multiple breakpoints like so: # some function/file... import pdb; pdb.set_trace() some_python_code_on_one_line() # some other function/file... import pdb; pdb.set_trace() some_other_python_code_on_one_line() I personally get lo…

Table of contents: Demo Summary Server side (Django) Model Form View Generating the thumbnail with PIL Client side Graceful degradation Demo Screencast Screenshots: The upload form, empty and ready for action: Browsing for an image: Uploading the image (in

I've been meaning to blog about this for about a month now!

Last week (May 3-7) a few reviews activate admin in forums app implement ACL after serious research migrate user passwords from Tiki on login migrate users and discussion-forum related groups from Tiki assist IT with Friday Pac Man issues help out new team

The past week I've been working with Django and permissions.

Two weeks ago (May 3-7) pushed 2.0/1.5.4 with rest of SUMOdev first time had problems with nfs mounts second time was a success, yay!

Last week (April 26-30) awesome webdev onsite learned about localization, the mass of krill, and cooking indian food, among other things kitsune r?

Table of contents: Introduction to introduction Resources Setup Running tests Writing tests Test suites Up next Introduction I'm working on a project largely written in Kohana and JavaScript + jQuery.

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It took only three days to migrate my blog from Wordpress to Jekyll.

This post is written in collaboration with Marius Craciunoiu, my brother, and designer of Quote Den and other sites.

As you may or may not know, the Windows 7 RC/beta/other releases expire at the latest on March 1st, 2 days from now.

Summary A while back, James wrote about his development environment.

UPDATE (27 Feb 2010) BarTab is an awesome extension.

This article explains how to easily create a contact form with spam filtering in Wordpress.

Ideas about teaching: Pedagogical content knowledge Culturally responsive teaching Teacher as facilitator Teacher learning Teacher learning communities Community of practices Common ways of doing things, common structure of teaching Quick review Behaviori…

Three major theories of learning: Behaviorism learning based on behavior came as response to old psychology based on "consciousness" conditioning response based on stimuli Constructivism new knowledge constructed on top of pre-existing knowledge More curr…

As part of my education 60 class, we have to read a paper by David Labaree, on schools: seen as a private vs public goal.

I'm taking a Computer Graphics class, and during the first week we need to install OpenGL and write a first, very simple program.