August 2008
5 posts
WatchI really love my Flip.
todo.txt
During my last weekly review, I dumped everything out of OmniFocus and instead went for the whole todo.txt thing.
The constraints are refreshing and made me rethink a lot of tasks I’ve kept in OmniFocus without doing anything about them, and more importantly forcing myself to rethink projects that I’d allowed to develop into sub-projects and sub-sub-projects.
But what I find myself enjoying the...
Getting Things Done: Low Tech edition.
I don’t have an iPhone.
There, that’s out of the way. This will make sense soon.
(This entry is about Getting Things Done. If you don’t know what it is, try Wikipedia.)
Let’s move to gtd: I’ve been using OmniFocus for Getting Things Done, but my problem has always been standing in the store, knowing there was something I needed to buy, but my MacBook is in the car. And even if I had it with me,...
Ordering arbitrary models by publishing date
So you have a bunch of blog entries and photos and links and such that you want to show in order. There’s at least two problems here:
Ordering a list of different objects on an unknown field.
Displaying these objects correctly in the templates.
For the last part of the problem, here’s a snippet I just posted ondjangosnippets.
from django import template
def display_excerpt(object,...
Morning Ritual
“Morgen”, I say to the receptionist. “Morning”, I say to the dev team.
Drop my computer bag on the desk and start unpacking.
MacBook Pro comes out first, then I climb under the desk to reach the socket. Plug in extra monitor and network cable. This is hard work already, so I go for a coffee.
Pull out iPod and cable, plug in and tuck away out of sight behind the monitor.
Get out diary, notebook...