I have nostalgia for a different time, a more ancient time, a time when the world felt bigger. A couple of nights ago I watched the 1934 movie It happened one night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, gosh she’s so gorgeous! The movie is a comedy, it’s 86 years old, but it’s incredibly refreshing and I’m going to explain why. I often feel the pressure of the time we live in. I see m...
Through the purple rain
Lately I’ve been listening a lot to purple rain, either the original from Prince or Adam Levine’s rendition. It just goes through me and comes out from the other side. I’d like to dedicate this to my father, it’s a song the girls in the band wrote. I never meant to cause you any sorrow, I never meant to cause you any pain.
An Echo-Sphere present
An eco-sphere “is the world’s first totally enclosed ecosystem - a complete, self-contained and self-sustaining miniature world encased in glass”. It demonstrates the interdependace of animal and plant life with Earth’s most precious element - water. It’s actually a science project initiated by NASA. I just bought one online as a graduation present for a friend of mine that is going to work aw...
Django Googlytics
I present to you django-googlytics, yeay!! I needed to add the google analytics for a django project, but none of the already existing solution was up to date or good enough for my usage. So I decided to wrote googlytics by merging a couple of good answers from this StackOverflow Q&A. The result is the following context_processor: def googlytics(request): """Return google analytics co...
My Experience of Django vs. Rails
The first obvious observation is that neither one is universally better than the other. Both have strength and weakness and which one to choose is strictly related to the project requirements. Before starting Let’s also clear something out: if you just need to put a couple of pages online for the grocery store around the corner both Django and Ruby on Rails are overkilling due to complexity o...