Category Archives: geek

I smashed into a timeline – My twitter background

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Jj
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What I’m doing to the pictures I upload anywhere

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Jj

$ mogrify -fill white -pointsize 16 -annotate +20+20 ‘If you\’re seeing this picture in Facebook, the person who uploaded it is an ass’ -thumbnail 800×800 -quality 75 picture.jpg

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Ubiquity script for Goo.gl

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Jj

Since google just made their URL shortener service public, I decided I would start using it . Going to the page and pasting a URL is too much work, Installing a firefox extension is too much bloat. So since I … Continue reading →

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Learning jQuery 1.3

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Jj

Right after finishing my review on the Django template development book I got contacted again by the Packt folks to do the same for the Learning jQuery 1.3 book. I was most pleased with the request. Now, this book has … Continue reading →

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Generating Javascript Widgets with reversed URL endpoints in Django

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Jj

I just read Elf Stenberg’s solution on how to serve static Javascript with reversed URLs in Django, I was going to leave this as a comment but I better explain it here When developing Django Widgets that require Javascript interaction … Continue reading →

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Django 1.0 Template Development

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Jj

Last month I got an email from Packt telling me about their latest book on Django Template development. I was invited to give it a read and see how I liked it. Now, I’m a lazy and slow reader. But … Continue reading →

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Google reader on a Netbook

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jj

I got a Lenovo S10 some months ago, and like all netbooks it has a 1024x~600 resolution which is fine for most web browgins but it happens to be too short for some applications, one of them being Google Reader. … Continue reading →

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So it has a snake inside doing all the magic!

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Jj

Great drawing used by the Nebula team at Nasa to show proudly that they use Django for their development.

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New Open selector version

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Jj

This last week I fonally found some time to improve two important features I missed in Open-selector The first thing I  hated was havign to make so many HTTP requests to fetch the provider icons, so now Open-selector makes use … Continue reading →

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Peleando contra IE6

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Jj

Siempre que comienzo a conversar sobre alguna nueva tecnología con alguien que que no anda metido en este tema termino desviándome a decir cuanto odio a Internet Explorer 6.Por mucho tiempo mi argumento para la gente uqe lo usaba era … Continue reading →

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