1. 09:57 15th Jul 2010

    Open Source Icons - gcons Excellent set of open source icons.

    Open Source Icons - gcons

    Excellent set of open source icons.

     

  2. 08:59 30th Jun 2010

    reblogged from: manspeaker

    …This particular hashtaggery is weirdly amusing, because, for some reason, starting any phrase with a hashtag makes it look like it’s being muttered into a handkerchief; when you read it you feel like you’ve had an intimate moment in which the writer leaned over and whispered “I would rather have a moose!” in your ear.
    — Free Range: Hash : The New Yorker (via manspeaker)
     

  3. 21:07 9th Jun 2010

    tags: licensescreative commons

    Cory Doctorow on CC license

    “It’s hard to monetize fame, but it’s even harder to monetize obscurity.”

     

  4. 12:54 6th Jun 2010

    tags: djangoprotippython

    Django ProTip: __unicode__ and __getattr__ on Models

    Just ran into a really curious situation. django runserver was dying the moment I would try to access a model I was creating. Didn’t give me any error, didn’t raise and exception, just died.

    I opened up the console and checked, the value was in the database (objects.all().count() showed it).  Then I got the error with a stack trace.  I was causing a RuntimeError with a maximum recursion issue.

    Turns out, if you implement a __getattr__ method on your model you should also implement a __unicode__ to make sure that you don’t accidentally throw yourself into this loop.

    Lesson learned.  Hope it helps you.

     

  5. 08:26 2nd Jun 2010

    Does Social Entrepreneurship Have an Ambition Problem? - Change.org

    This is a massive problem in the non-profit sector from my vantage point.  People inside it get so focused on one particular task that they lose sight of the bigger picture.  Rather than step back and look at the problem as a whole, they ask how they can fix one problem right in front of them.

    The concept of “scale” is at the heart of many people’s definition of social entrepreneurship. The field is meant to produce organizations with transformational potential across the scope of a problem. At the same time, traditional community development and local nonprofit folks sometimes bristle (reasonably) at the notion that their work is somehow less important because they’re not trying to replicate their model in every city,
     

  6. 20:12 31st May 2010

    tags: wywofdesignsummer

    New project for the summer

    According to the Nielsen Company, people spent an average of 6 hours, 43 minutes and 22 seconds on Facebook during April 2010. That’s 403 minutes (rounded to the minute) per user for that month; during March, it was 419 minutes. In February, about 388 minutes. Average those numbers together (and assume 4 weeks in a month), and that’s an average of about 100 minutes spent on Facebook per user, per week for the three most recent months.

    That’s how Karl Stolley starts off his new project: While You Were On Facebook.  The permise is simple.  Instead of spending that time on Facebook, spend 100 minutes a week working on your own website(s).  Add microformats, add PubSubHubBub, or just make it easier to figure out what you’re up to.

    I made the suggestion we bump it to 105 minutes a week, or more easily digestible, 15 minutes a day.  That’s a nice easy number, and something everyone can do (right)?  So, starting tomorrow I’m going to spend 15 minutes a day working on my online presence.

    First up, I need to wrap up my redesign of TravisSwicegood.com and get it deployed.  Then I’ll start tackling some of the other pieces I want to add to it.

     

  7. 06:59 28th May 2010

    Mea Culpa

    I can’t count the times I’ve backed off of “really cool” designs because they weren’t going to be easy to explain or hand off to someone else.

    Programming is an embarrassment compared to other fields of engineering and design. Our mainstream culture is one of adolescent self-indulgence. It is like something from Gulliver’s Travels, with the curly-bracketeers vs. the indentationites vs. the parenthesesophiles. The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other programmers are. Try googling “stupid programmers”. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
    Programming will not grow up until our culture grows up. We can only patiently and persistently do our part to elevate the level of discourse, and share what wisdom we have gained.

     

  8. 21:01 26th May 2010

    Antipodean - Node.js chat server in CoffeeScript

    Very cool little chat server for Node.js written in Coffeescript.  Hope to see a lot more things like popping up.

     

  9. 20:50

    Rock Star

    unsuck:

    Unsuck it: Adequate programmer.

     

  10. 20:49

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    World Map Of Touristyness

    World Map Of Touristyness