December 30th, 2008
This is part 3 of a multi-part post on my battle to get an iPhone for myself and a Blackberry Pearl Flip for my wife from Roger’s wireless. At the time of this writing, the saga is still on-going so I cannot say how many episodes there will be… Previous episodes: Episode 1: The Phantom [...]
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Tags: iPhone, Rogers
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December 27th, 2008
The default test behaviour for a Django site creates and then destroys a whole test database on each test run. Normally this is not a problem, but the way Dreamhost has their MySQL setup running, the commands to create and drop databases are not available outside of their administration panel. What follows is the solution I have come up with and am currently using to run Django unittests with my Dreamhost MySQL databases.
Posted in Programming, Tutorials | 2 Comments »
Tags: django, dreamhost, Programming, testing
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December 23rd, 2008
Here we are struggling to get our application tested thoroughly and polished up for the end of sprint when Facebook starts pulling all kinds of crazy shit on us.
Posted in Blogging, Technology, VendAsta, Work | No Comments »
Tags: Facebook, MyFrontSteps, Scrum, VendAsta
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December 22nd, 2008
This is part 2 of a multi-part post on my battle to get an iPhone for myself and a Blackberry Pearl Flip for my wife from Roger’s wireless. At the time of this writing, the saga is still on-going so I cannot say how many episodes there will be… Previous episodes: Episode 1: The Phantom [...]
Posted in Technology | 13 Comments »
Tags: iPhone, Rogers, ups
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December 21st, 2008
The third Spokesmonster video has been posted to YouTube! With an ever-expanding cast of characters, the saga of the often misunderstood Spokesmonster and his quest to enhance his reputation continues! More excellent work from Michael and his team of talented voice actors: Dave, Nicole and Rachel! Check it out!
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Tags: humour, MyFrontSteps, Spokesmonster, StepRep, VendAsta
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December 21st, 2008
Just a quick post to mention the fact that I have finally upgraded my WordPress! It’s been a long time coming and I have to say, I am impressed with how easy it was. Unfortunately, the copy I am using for this site was not installed with the DreamHost one-click-installs, so I could not do [...]
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Tags: tags, WordPress
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December 21st, 2008
This is part 1 of a multi-part post on my battle to get an iPhone for myself and a Blackberry Pearl Flip for my wife from Roger’s wireless. At the time of this writing, the saga is still on-going so I cannot say how many episodes there will be…
One of the many cool things about [...]
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Tags: iPhone, Rogers
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