Ian Lewis | English Blog

Yesterday I attended the second Tokyo Hackerspace meeting.

I implemented blog post previews for my blog using the technique described here: http://latherrinserepeat.org/2008/7/28/stupid-simple-django-admin-previews/

I’m about 2 weeks late getting around to writing about Google I/O and most people already know what went on but I’ll share a bit more.

I finally got around to finishing up my Django based website.

I attended the Google Wave BOF (Birds of a Feather).

This year I attended Google IO and had so much fun that I think I’ll have to break it up into several blog posts.

Today I participated in Tokyo BarCamp 2009.

jQuery has a UI framework called jQueryUI which provides a number of UI controls and widgets that you can use to create cool user interfaces.

What is it about some C programmers that makes them write code that looks like this:

The way to store data on App Engine is with Google’s Datastore which has support for transactions.

I wanted to impove a Google App Engine application that a friend of mine created (ほぼ汎用イベント管理ツール(jp)) and noticed that he was redirecting directly to urls.

Yesterday I ran into an interesting quirk with Django’s QueryDict object and the normal dictionary update() method.

My coworker recently introduced me to one of the most blatantly bad behaviors in web browser history.

One of the neat things making it’s way into Django 1.1 is F object queries.

Earlier this week I came across the jQuery Pageslide plugin via Ajaxian and was impressed with the design.

I couldn’t find something that gave me quite what I wanted so I created a simple Python generator to give me the dates between two datetime objects.

Update (2026/05/24): Most of the links on this page are unfortunately no longer working and have been removed.

Getting UTF-8 to work with guile is a bit of a stretch as guile doesn’t have any real encoding or UTF-8 support to speak of, but I was able to get at least some basic stuff working by using the Unicode Manipulation routines which are part of the Guile-Glib

Using the Django sitemap framework is so easy it’s almost no work at all.

For my new project dlife (Update: Now django-lifestream), I went about implementing a simple comments interface that would allow users to make comments on imported feed items.

Over the weekend at Python Onsen I worked on a lifestream web application using Django and feedparser.

Last weekend I went to my second Python Onsen organized by Nakai-san(id:voluntas).

The first version of the Disqus plugin has been released!

I recently quit using Google Web Toolkit and started using jQuery for a personal project of mine and I wanted to be able to show some modal dialog boxes using jQuery.

I just released a new version of jsonschema 0.2 alpha over at http://code.google.com/p/jsonschema

I just set up Plagger to send me e-mails to my cellphone and Gmail when there are updates to my replies rss feed on twitter.

Just played a bit with Graphviz and made some simple graphs.

Update (2023-10-02): The video is no longer available.

I have wanted a good dictionary application that supports a number of dictionaries/dictionary formats for studying Japanese but I’ve been sort of frustrated that there is no single application that does what I would like.

Kris Zyp (the author of the JSONSchema proposal) mentioned jsonschema on his blog at json.com.

Update (2025-01-27): Many of the links no longer work.

I was thinking about using Django for one of my projects on App Engine because it seems like a popular project and somewhat easy to use, but I’m not quite understanding yet why it’s better to have helper functions rather than controller/handler classes li…

A few days ago Protocol Buffers was released by Google as an open source project.

I wanted a convenient way to test out some javascript by running it in a browser and being able to play with it via an interpreter like python has.

Just found out about Ohloh, which is an open-source community website that allows users to give each other “kudos”, and the number of kudos that you give and receive affects your standing within the open source community.

I went to Google Developer Day 2008 in Yokohama Japan yesterday.

I made some changes to the TinyMCE plugin for b2evolution to support some callbacks which will allow other b2evolution plugins to register TinyMCE plugins automatically.

Since I went to the doctor today I thought I would post some Japanese words that are relatively new to me.

Google Developer Day Japan 2008 is being held on June 10th at Google’s offices in Shibuya and I’ve registered to attend this year.

I implemented tracking using Google Analytics for my company’s mobile sites using a technique described by Peter van der Graff on his site.

One of the things that makes Japanese hard is the writing system.

I took a look at the Gallery 2 plugin for WordPress by ozgreg to get some ideas on how they had integrated Gallery 2 with the WordPress blog engine and how I might be able to bring those features to b2evolution.

Recently I’ve been doing a decent amount of debugging a database conversion process and looking at log files on the Red Hat servers at work.

Many people who are new to Debian might be thinking that Debian stable releases are slow.