Benjamin Turner blturner

High level style in javascript.

Opinions are like assholes, every one has got one.

This one is mine.

Punctuation: who cares?

Punctuation is a bikeshed. Put your semicolons, whitespace, and commas where you like them.

Note: This comment was in response to Lynn Root's discussion on women in the Django / tech community at Djangocon Europe 2012.*

The issue of women in our community has been very prominent recently—mostly due to negative situations where something went wrong, but sometimes because of thoughtful discussions about how to actually improve things. Your talk is one of the latter—thank you for giving it!

Like any sensitive topic, most attempts to discuss the issue end up going nowhere good. Sometimes it veers into “women tend to,” sometimes it veers into a lot of self-congratulation on how enlightened we are to be even discussing it. It’s been my experience that none of these are really helpful in getting actionable things I can do.

Obviously, having a safe environment for women is a precondition, and I don’t think it’s a solved problem, but what else should we be spending our cpu cycles on? Say we have a conference code of conduct which is properly enforced. What should we be

Day9 Must-Watches

General

http://day9.tv/d/Day9/day9-daily-100-my-life-of-starcraft/

Django and Postgis on OS X

Install Homebrew

Install a few things with homebrew:

Notice that some packages give you information at the end, read it carefully. To recall that info use brew info like this: $ brew info postgresql

$ brew install python --universal

Readernaut API

I'm going to be deprecating the current Readernaut API in favor of a newer more built-out version. People using the current version have two weeks to switch over to the new API. Currently you can find your API_KEY by viewing source on any page and searching for "api_key" in the output (this will get better later). Here are some example endpoints:

Notes

Old: /services/api/USERNAME/notes/
New: /api/v1/notes/note/?username=YOUR_USERNAME&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&user__username=USERNAME

	#
	# Before running:
	# $ gem install twitter
	#
	# Register a Twitter application to get auth credentials:
	# https://dev.twitter.com/apps
	#
	# To run:
	# $ ruby counter.rb upworthy.com 500
	#

	DJ Ango, yo!
	http://railsenvy.com/2007/9/10/ruby-on-rails-vs-django-commercial-7

	The Whistles
	[now broken] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccgXjA2BLEY
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=Nnzw_i4YmKk

	Do it live!
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
	REMIX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE&NR=1

	sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES;
	sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionDisabled;

	// by the way, you need to logout and log back in for this to take effect. Or at least that's what
	// Quartz Debug says. Who knows, maybe it's lying?

	// P.S. Go to [Apple menu --> System Preferences --> Displays --> Display --> Scaled] after logging
	// back in, and you'll see a bunch of "HiDPI" resolutions in the list to choose from.

	@media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {

	/* Small screen, non-retina */

	}

	@media
	only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (min-width: 320px),
	only screen and ( min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (min-width: 320px),
	only screen and ( -o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1) and (min-width: 320px),

	# Hard Reset SVN working-copy back to checkout (records a diff first).
	alias svn.HardReset='read -p "destroy ALL local changes?[y/N]" && [[ $REPLY =~ ^[yY] ]] && svn diff &> $(mktemp \| tee -a "${HOME}/.svnReset.log") && svn revert -R . && rm -rf $(awk -f <(echo "/^?/{print $2}") <(svn status );)'