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Re: Grand River Brewing

truebosko — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:05:51 -0000

Great review and info! I'm going to recommend this to the girlfriends parents.

Re: A Python Script to Extract Excerpts From Articles

truebosko — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:28:43 -0000

Your removeHeaders(soup): looks scary. Could you not rewrite it to something like so:

[tree.extract() for tree in [soup(arg) for arg in ['h1','h2','h3']]]

Didn't test it, and it's the morning but that chunk should definitly be done differently. Regardless, nice little article :)

edit: Just realized you already did something similar in your github code. My bad!

Re: Setting up nginx as a front end for your Django / Python website.

truebosko — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:26:10 -0000

You know, never thought of that. Good point, but wouldn't you say that we should actually work towards moving to 64 bit systems? I am no expert on the subject but I've seen some very passionate people denounce 32-bit systems because they are "old hat" now :)

Re: Internet Explorer 8 fieldset and legend bugs

truebosko — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:23:25 -0000

Why did I, or anyone else for that matter have much higher hopes that IE8 would not do this kind of stuff? Owell, hopefully they fix it quickly.

Re: Setting up nginx as a front end for your Django / Python website.

truebosko — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:15:55 -0000

Thanks for the link. The article does touch base on some of the things I experienced but not entirely.

I think my main problem with Apache was that I was hosting both Python and PHP based sites on the same 256mb slice. As soon as I brought on some bigger sites into my slice, things went crazy.

I did try a number of solutions, including switching to the Apache worker MPM as well as trying all sorts of Apache configurations but it did no luck. There was improvement, but load was still up.

Perhaps there is a solution to my issue using a sleak Apache config that can handle both environments but I could not find it.

After working with nginx, I personally enjoy the idea of a multi-server approach where I can proxy requests off to whatever I see fit, seems like an easier approach when it comes to scaling.

Re: Setting up nginx as a front end for your Django / Python website.

truebosko — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:54:32 -0000

This is an option as I mentioned, but I just simply chose to use mod_wsgi. My reasons primarily fall under the "tested & true" category but also that I wanted to propose a more gradual switch for current Apache users instead of a full out change. Hope that makes sense :)

Re: A blog test post

truebosko — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:19:42 -0000

testing disqus!

Re: Food Online

truebosko — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:12:51 -0000

No problem! I've heard good things about Vimeo.com for people wanting to show higher quality content, maybe something to look at. Thanks for the show!

Re: Creating My Django Server.

truebosko — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:14:09 -0000

Hey, thanks!

As for the PythonPath, you do not need to include the path to django like I
did if your app is in a different location. I shall revise that part to make
it clearer but if your app is in /home/my/app then all you need to have is:

PythonPath "['/home/my/app'] + sys.path"

Hope that makes sense

Re: Python Web Scrapper with BeautifulSoup

truebosko — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:34:43 -0000

You also don't import re, just a small nitpick :)

Re: Reminder: Office Holiday Party

truebosko — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:58:21 -0000

Someone start one for Waterloo :)

Re: Spaceless HTML in Django

truebosko — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:12:24 -0000

Very nice and simple trick. Thanks

Re: Clutterme.com is for sale, on ebay

truebosko — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:06:24 -0000

taking it back :)

Re: Switching from iTunes to the new Songbird

truebosko — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:31:33 -0000

pvh:

Wow, thanks for that hearty explanation .. I too was kind of curious about
the browser in Songbird but that makes a lot of sense :)

Thanks for mentioning the 1.0 RC, I've been out of the loop for a bit!

P.S - Yes, yay for Songkick Canadian listings, just saw the news today, glad
I can use that with Songbird now

Re: Two simple techniques to make your Django projects ultra portable

truebosko — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:51:09 -0000

Doh, that's what I get when I am in a rush. Fixed my post up there

Re: Two simple techniques to make your Django projects ultra portable

truebosko — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:47:10 -0000

Hey thanks, good to know that! I'll update my post to reflect that .. and of
course use it from now on :)

Re: homezilla.com - know your neighborhood when buying a home

truebosko — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:16:36 -0000

It's slow and the "More info" is buggy, just seems to show duplicate content and on one of them I got linked to Google's AJAX FAQ (what the hell?)

Re: Switching from iTunes to the new Songbird

truebosko — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:58:11 -0000

The Linux version provided by Songbird is in simple zipped format. You
simply need to build it from source, depending how it's setup (I haven't
installed it on Linux but it shouldnt be too hard) .. Just read up on
building linux programs from source or check out the Songbird help forums

Re: Sending HTML emails to multiple subscribers via Django

truebosko — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:08:20 -0000

Thanks jonknee, that's extremely helpful. I didn't even have the slightest
clue on any of those topics, I almost feel bad writing this quick post :-)

I'm going to look over those links in my spare time, thanks again!

Re: Sending HTML emails to multiple subscribers via Django

truebosko — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:47:14 -0000

@jonkee: You're definitely right on that and I'm not advocating spamming
here, just using django's mailing techniques to send out to your user list.
You could always go further and manage the bounced back emails to be removed
from your list and so forth so you don't mess up your

Can you explain more about the DNS entries, SPF, and Sender ID? I'm curious
myself

Re: Switching from iTunes to the new Songbird

truebosko — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:47:30 -0000

Dan, it has iPod syncing abilities but to be honest I can't recommend it yet over iTunes

Album art and all those other fancies are things you can get with addons, but album art comes pre-built

As for podcast syncing, as my article mentioned it was kind of flaky still so meh on that.

Re: Switching from iTunes to the new Songbird

truebosko — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:06:30 -0000

Ya .. the podcast support so far is weak which is why I can't fully switch yet. Like you (yes I've seen your CastRoller.com project ;) ) I too am an avid fan of podcasts and needs them to function

Re: Switching from iTunes to the new Songbird

truebosko — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:58:18 -0000

Are you on Windows or something else? iTunes on Windows for me is very slow and glitchy, and Songbird is a bit glitchy and slow, but nothing compared to iTunes. A player I lived by for a long time was foobar2000 but maintaining the scripts for it got too much of a hassle and I just ended up going the iTunes route

Re: Quick Tip: Firefox Favourites Icon Bar

truebosko — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:17:20 -0000

Haha, nice work.. very close. The ones you missed in order:
- last.fm
- huffington post
- google stocks
- WS was part of the gmail icon. A way to differentiate between the two ;)
- yelp = ycombinator
- at&t = the weather network but now that you mention it, they look eerily the same on a small scale

Re: Going Green (In Kitchener Waterloo)

truebosko — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:04:55 -0000

Ben: No problem, a great blog you have that I'm just getting into! :)

As for bike lanes ... Kitchener/Waterloo is pretty bad for bike lanes. I'd say the city is pretty bike friendly in other aspects .. drivers are very nice to you, mainly because there is a lot of us bikers, and it's generally a nice smooth ride with good roads wherever you go. There are a few bike lanes but none that I encounter too often, and none really along the primary travel streets