Nostradamnit

Fixing Lightning invitation buttons

Thu, 03 May 2012 06:49:18 -0700

I don't think I'm the only one who's been having this problem (missing accept/decline buttons), but I've found a workaround.

Simply create a new calendar.

In Thunderbird (Icedove for the Debian users), File > New > Calendar, Choose where you want to create it (I chose My Computer), Give it a name and choose your email. Then magically the buttons appear, and even work :D

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Fixing Lightning invitation buttons problem

Thu, 03 May 2012 05:27:00 -0700

I don't think I'm the only one who's been having this problem (missing accept/decline buttons), but I've found a workaround.

Simply create a new calendar.

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Ubuntu

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:56:18 -0800

Ok, I haven't written about Ubuntu since 9.10 come out. We're now at 11.10, and I've given up. Unity didn't please me, the last two releases have been of questionable quality and I'm tired of upgrades not working. When I upgrade my 10.10 to 11.04 just a few weeks ago, in preparation for an eventual upgrade to 11.10, the upgrade failed, leaving me to slave though hours of dpkg --configure -a and apt-get -f install and the associated headaches. Then just weeks later, the 11.10 upgrade went even worse, leaving my system unbootable. After spending the morning trying to revive it, I just installed another hard drive and installed Debian Squeeze. At least it works, though I don't think I'll keep it for very much longer... Which distro next? I've been trying out Salix, which seems to work pretty well, but is not without warts... Only time will tell.

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Christmas Eve snow :D

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:10:00 -0800

Woke up to a couple of centimeters of (unexpected) snow this morning. The kids promptly made a lil' snowman to celebrate the season.

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delicio.us closing :(

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:15:00 -0800

It appears that Yahoo! is shutting down Delicio.us . I think I'll start sending my interesting links here...

Here's a first one

http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2010/08/python-web-application-with-spring.html

and another

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2010/12/differences-between-nodejs-and-erlang_14.html

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Django View error

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:14:07 -0800

Note to self: whenever Django complains that a view didn't return an HttpResponse object, it means you probably forgot to 'return' the render_to_response or HttpResponse in your view method.

Example:

def blah_view(request):
# work here
render_to_response('path/to/template.html')

The above code will return:
ValueError

The view blah_view didn't return an HttpResponse object.

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CSS text-shadow

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:06:00 -0800

While looking at my last post, I noticed that posterous had a nice looking drop shadow on some text in the footer. After investigating (looking at the page source) , I saw that they were using the text-shadow property, and more importantly, it was working in my browser! (FF 3.5.5 / Ubuntu 9.10). I like :D

Now I'm gonna see if I can modify this post to insert some css drop shadow goodness :D

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Django Generic Views

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:43:02 -0800

Working on setting up some generic views this evening, I ran into a problem that I'd run up against before. For some reason, I can't understand the very good documentation and always run up against the problem of referencing the queryset in the template.

The queryset is passed as 'queryset' in urls.py, but in the template it is not referenced as queryset, but some other name depending on the generic view.

In this evening's case, I was using the 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_index' view, and couldn't figure out the name by which to reference my objects?!? After trying object_list, object, queryset, and any other name I could think of, I added the debug toolbar to the project at it kindly showed be the variable ('latest' in this case)

Of course now I see that it's rather clearly stated, but I always seem to skim over this important bit of info.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/generic-views/#django-views-generic-...
see template_object_name and its default value

Hopefully this note will jar my memory next time, and maybe even help some one else :)

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Ubuntu 9.10

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:30:32 -0700

Ubuntu 9.10 comes out at the end of the month, and I've been testing it. It looks great, but unfortunately, it isn't working very well with my Intel video chip :( And that was supposed to be one of the improvements for this release...

Hopefully some one on the forum'll be able to help me fix it.

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new blog

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:10:38 -0700

testing the simplicity

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