Category Archives: tech

Squeeze more readable space out of Google Reader’s new layout

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Jj

I am not happy with the removal of Google Reader social features. I really enjoyed discovering new feeds following people.

Anyway, I don’t mind the new look but it leaves too little readable space. A couple of years ago I blogged about how to use Firefox’s userContent.css to optimize the layout. Continue reading →

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UnicodeEncodeError on Django uploaded files

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Jj

This has been an error that’s been bugging me for months. For some reason in production settings only in the production server only, whenever a user uploaded a files with a non ascii filename, I’d get this error UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ … Continue reading →

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Mogrify using too much memory

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Jj

I wanted to shrink pictures a folder with thousands of files. They were unnecessarily huge. So I made a script to resize them. Imagemagick’s mogrify takes all the RAM it can in the system to handle huge files, making the … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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New Open-selector version

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Jj

This shall be called Version 0.2 . The cool feature of this is the inline mode, it will be useful to have an OpenID login box in topbars, inline menus or heading sections (they are all the same I think), … Continue reading →

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