New monitor: Acer G276HLA
A great friend of mine adviced me about a bid during the Amazon Premium Day. We have been talking about monitors some time ago and he remembered I was searching a replacement for my 22"
Call date inside an alias
Stupidity of the day: calculate the date in an double quoted bash alias. It seems that, if you don't escape the date call, it's called at the time of the alias definition, so it's not the real behaviour I was looking for:
Upgrading Django to 1.8
As they said, having last version has several benefits: New features and improvements are added. Bugs are fixed. Older version of Django will eventually no longer receive security updates. Upgrading as each new Django release is available makes future upgrades less painful by keeping your code base up to date.
irssi: playing with multiline paste
It's not quite known that some of us are still using irc as main channel for projects. I have to admit that without irc wouldn't have been able to talk with many interesting people, even lead developers in great opensource projects.
Casual fun with tests
Fun is not the word because I went to bed really annoyed last two days, but it's the only way I can handle this, having as much "fun" as I can.
Using mercurial a la darcs
Nowadays using a version control system is as basic as using an editor. I have to admit I'm a mercurial fanboy because it's clear, simple and written in python. In some other projects we're using darcs, similar to mercurial but with a different approach.
Python, Zombie, forms, tables and tests
Sometimes you feel that the world is against you, sometimes it's a computer what makes your life miserable. This time was a cocktail of elements. Trying to test a simple form functionally from python-zombie was like a nightmare.
Easter out of the city
Once more, we decided to go out of the city, to a house in the country side, in Calo, near the sea, to spent the 4 free Easter days. What can I say, it was nice as ever, enjoying a lot with children, friends and pleasant walks.
Pyramid: set a cookie returning a HTTPFound
Probably it will not be the most common scenario, but if you want to save a cookie and make a redirection right away using HTTPFound, the cookie won't being saved. That's the fact.
Feeling an old techie
I was thinking about that feeling lately. It seems that I can not follow the wave out there, there are many things escaping from my comprehension due lack of time. Starting to talk about anything not related to my day-by-day is starting to feeling myself out of date.