Haineault - haineault.com - Haineault.com / Blog
General Information:
Latest News:
08-May-2012 14:00 - The pathetic downfall of Yellow Pages 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
My business partner stumbled upon a new 411 site .. 411.ca. The copyright states "411 Local Search Corp" as the owner of 411.ca, but there is also a Yellow Pages logo on the front page. So it's not c...
09-Oct-2011 13:52 - Android and the false promises of openness 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
I've been an Android fan boy from day one. It was very exciting for me to see a new Open Source mobile OS running on a Linux kernel. But today I understand Richard Stallman's stance on Free Open Sour...
09-Oct-2011 23:19 - Here's why you need to start using SASS 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
I've finally took the time to take a look at SASS and god damn it's nice for many reasons.. but my favorite is this: You can write this.. Then you can write.. Instead of.. It makes CSS fun again :...
14-Oct-2011 22:30 - How to win against big telecom companies trying to screw you 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
As a Canadian I have to deal with the handful of cellphone cartels which have monopoly over our Canadian telecommunication market. Yes I'm talking about you Bell, Rogers, Telus & friends. So far the...
31-Oct-2011 09:40 - PostgreSQL gotcha 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
I've just spent 20min trying to allow remote connections to a PostgresSQL database running on Ubuntu. I did it before so I thought it was a 5min thing .. well no. I updated the pg_hba.conf as usual ...
07-Nov-2011 10:00 - Django: Handling media across development stages 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
The introduction of the staticfiles app in django helped a lot with the management of media files by separating the media in two big categories: resource files and user uploaded files. This separatio...
08-Dec-2011 00:31 - The HTML data attribute rocks. 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
I've started to use a new pattern to pass template variables to JavaScript .. It's wonderful. Bad: Good: Now you can put that js where it belong; in a separate file. 31 comment(s)
24-Feb-2012 00:18 - Pypi 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Get tired of pypi's repetitive downtimes.. Decide to deploy own mirror Clone a nice turnkey solution from github python bootstrap.py && ./bin/buildout Facepalm 8 comment(s)
15-Apr-2012 23:58 - AdminThumbnailMixin 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Well .. the name says it all. If you're using django-easythumbnails, you'll probably like this little mixin. Mixin Admin Usage: Options thumbnail_options: A dictionary passed to the thumbnailer ...
29-May-2012 10:00 - Using Guake with IPython 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Guake is a great terminal utility, but even thought I always install it I rarely end up using it because I always have many terminal windows opened all the time. But yesterday I found that that Guake...
