http://themorgue.org/blog ramblings of distinction Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:09:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was at a FedExKinkos in Norman, OK today just browsing around and came across the greeting card section of the store. One card caught my eye that had George Bush's face on it. The card said something about Bush's last day in office (which is in 2009) ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/07/11/ive-heard-of-the-liberal-media-bias-but-birthday-cards/ The current SVN version of Django has a new way of creating forms for adding and editing objects in a database. The most recent released version, 0.96, had two functions to create objects that generated forms for you: form_for_model and form_for_instance. The form_for_model function would take a Model ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/05/14/django-and-modelform/ There is an epidemic of bad design in this world that is more than just annoying, it's dangerous. I'm not just talking about bad aesthetic quality of devices, obviously. I'm mean that their behaviors are badly designed as well. I think Steve Jobs nails it when he ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/04/22/bad-design-considered-harmful-seriously/ Growing up in Michigan, the only real choice of ginger ale was Vernor's. As I would find out later in life, this wasn't such a bad thing. After moving to North Carolina for graduate school, I discovered that not everyone knew what Vernor's (or ginger ale in general) ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/04/04/my-new-favorite-ginger-ale/ I know that nobody thinks there is any reason to go to Oklahoma, and for the most part, you'd be right. Yeah, there is a wicked cool museum of banjos in Guthrie and there is even a canal area of Oklahoma City a lot like the one in San ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/04/03/the-reason-to-visit-oklahoma/ I've been working on a MooTools class for the past couple of days that makes large data tables scrollable. When the page loads, it checks to see if any data tables are larger than the scrollable area of the window. If there are tables like this, it puts ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/04/03/mootools-garbage-collection/ It's been a while now since I've started using the MooTools Javascript toolkit, and I haven't regretted that decision once. MooTools still doesn't have a following as big as Prototype or jQuery or maybe even Dojo, but it just seems to fit my code aesthetic the best. I ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/03/25/life-with-mootools/ I've been playing around with writing web applications lately and have been looking for a good Javascript library to help with Ajax and web browser differences. After doing a little searching, two libraries floated to the top: Prototype and jQuery. Prototype was definitely the most popular, partially because of the ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2008/01/19/prototype-and-jquery-and-mootools-oh-my/ Now that I'm living in Oklahoma I thought it might be fun to try to organize a Python User Group. My friend Blaine has been running a dynamic language user group for a while now in Omaha, NE and it sounds like a lot of fun. I thought ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2007/10/28/python-user-group/ I've been doing a lot of security work on my web server and email this past week and decided to update all of the passwords on my accounts in the process. I have to admit, that I'm really bad at coming up with good passwords. I guess that's ... http://themorgue.org/blog/2007/10/28/the-coolest-application-youve-never-heard-of/