October 27, 2007 – 12:14 pm
I finally got around to upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.3.1. It was extremely painless; I had it done in a matter of minutes. Here were my steps:
Backup database (mysqldump).
Backup entire heirarchy of benjamingolub.com
Overwrite the old wordpress folder with the new one (they recommend not doing this, but I see no problem assuming [...]
October 17, 2007 – 11:12 am
A ton of services are popping up that take all of your (Twitter, Google Reader, Netflix, Blog, etc) RSS feeds and make a “stream” of your online activity. My favorite is FriendFeed. Last night I decided to see how fast I could whip one up in Django, and the result is http://stream.benjamingolub.com. [...]
October 6, 2007 – 4:18 pm
A coworker recently asked me if it was true that you couldn’t use programming logic in Django templates. It is true that the Django template language is rather limiting but this is done purposely because designers aren’t programmers. Most of what you’d want to do with in a template is built into Django but sometimes you [...]
October 2, 2007 – 8:49 am
Update: Robert blocked the Wayback Machine from accessing his site so the links below won’t work. I can only guess that he did this to remove the evidence. But Google cache had a copy, here is a PDF.
Update: Robert fixed the site, thanks!
Scheduler Jones was my final project for ENGR 131, Intro to Computer Programming, [...]