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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Posted in Personal Miscellany
on November 23rd, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
I'm home sick today and I decided to re-watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. What an awesome movie or show or whatever. It was released in three 15 min episodes over the internet during the writers' strike, and stars Neil Patrick Harris as the anti-hero, Dr. Horrible. It centres around a love triangle between Dr. Horrible, his nemesis, the superhero Captain Hammer, played by Nathan Fillion, and Dr. Horrible's laundromat crush, the shy and philanthropic Penny played by Felicia Day.
Tim Horton's French Onion Soup
Posted in Personal Miscellany
on November 11th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Food and Restaurants
Tim Horton's has a new French Onion Soup promotional item. It looks really good on the posters and I love french onion soup, so I decided to give it a try. I got my chance when Matt and I were on our way to Bathurst and stopped at the Tim Hortons in Cap Pelé, New Brunswick.
jQuery Confirm Dialog Plugin
Posted in Tech
on November 11th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
This is a jQuery plugin to mimic the functionality of the standard Javascript window.confirm(message) function provided by the BOM in all browsers, except that it's prettier. You can download the package here. It requires jQuery, as well as the jQuery UI dialog component, and the draggable component as well if you want the dialog to be draggable.
Created a front page app
Posted in Django
on November 10th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
I decided to encapsulate the functionality of the front page with its own separate app. There is only one visible change to the way the front page looks and acts, but it is implemented in an entirely different way.
Taskmaster App Available For Download
Posted in Django
on November 6th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
I now have my taskmaster application (a program which allows other Django apps to arbitrarily queue tasks for background processing) packaged as a download.
I Started A New "Tech" Blog
Posted in Tech
on November 6th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
I started a new blog on my site to talk about technical issues. The idea is that not everything I want to talk about that is technical in nature really belongs in the Django blog, and I don't really want to weigh down my personal blog with these discussions, either. I'm planning to make my first foray my releasing a little jQuery plugin I wrote for creating confirm dialogs with the jQuery UI dialog.
Infinite (Django) and Wordpress: A Comparison
Posted in Django
on October 28th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Infinite, the Django application set (I don't want to say "application," because a Django site is actually a set of applications linked by a settings file) that runs infiniterecursion.ca is basically feature complete. This seems like a good time to step back again and consider what I've made.
LinkBacks and Search Added
Posted in Django
on October 26th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Last night I added the last of the originally-planned features for the infiniterecursion.ca web site. The new features are the linkback system and a Search feature.
www.QueerIsland.org
Posted in Personal Miscellany
on October 16th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
When I quit ARC (Abegweit Rainbow Collective, the gay and lesbian group on PEI - I just want to emphasize, strongly, that I did not have anything to do with designing the site that's there now!!), I had experimentally created a phpBB bulletin board for the ARC web site, which I had designed and was managing at the time, as a community service. Hardly anyone used it but there were a few and I didn't want to abandon the experiment just because I wasn't going to be involved with ARC any more. So I registered www.QueerIsland.org and re-created the bulletin board.
Trials with Javascript dialogs
Posted in Django
on October 13th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
The built-in Javascript dialogs, alert, confirm and prompt, give very limited possibilities for customization and they don't look pretty. This encourages increasing numbers of developers to use more feature-rich alternatives where the dialog is actually a piece of HTML document which given dialog-like behaviour using Javascript.