Recently I was working on a data-driven application which needed to continue operating in sometimes-disconnected environments. In theory…

As many folks, I do not like the Unity interface in the latest versions of Ubuntu. In Ubuntu 11.04, I had used the “Classic” mode when…

Recently I had to unzip a lot of files located in subdirectories. To do this, I used a combination of the “find” and “gunzip” commands in…

There are lots of instructions for getting setup with git around on the web, however all of them seem very verbose and since this is the…

I’ve been playing around with Django lately, and have stumbled upon the glory of Django-nonrel (and it’s ability to use Google App Engine…

Today I fired up an application that I hadn’t touched in quite some time—I ran it, and got a very unusual exception error message while…