This week I have mostly been getting my head into Python and learning django for my new blog/portfolio site. I want to find some more evening feelance work so time to get my pencil and code out on something for myself and get my self a new site so I can show some of the work I have been doing and see if I can get some more.
Things I have learnt about django so far that had caught me out:
It caches code to memory so use the test server and restart alot, this caught me out as sometimes files would update and sometimes not.
The django 4 stage tutorial is good and worth doing but I was trying to skip ahead and bring in other snippets for template creation and they were breaking because I had missed some small details on imports. So worth going slowly. The tutorial is nice as it does things basically and then goes back and layers over the last function with more features so you build up knowledge.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Still here
Not so happy with the new minimal Blogger so am learning more Python and django so will be seeking to have some hacking weekends next month and get something new up and make more effort to post a bit. I find twitter so easy to brain dump, share and blog in that its hard to take the time to write more.
1. get fit
2. get a django site up
3. post more blogs
1. get fit
2. get a django site up
3. post more blogs
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Podcast take away lessons now included in Spanish course
Get extra value from your Spanish evening course from Cactus Language courses UK.
The Spanish courses in the UK and USA now have 10 hour lessons added to the 10week course. So you can take your teacher with you for extra training and extra help with your home study. You'll learn faster and can listen again at your own pace.
This is extra to your course so extra value from one of the UK's leading and most popular courses in London and 25 schools accoss the UK.
Come see them today.
Http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/languageminis
The Spanish courses in the UK and USA now have 10 hour lessons added to the 10week course. So you can take your teacher with you for extra training and extra help with your home study. You'll learn faster and can listen again at your own pace.
This is extra to your course so extra value from one of the UK's leading and most popular courses in London and 25 schools accoss the UK.
Come see them today.
Http://www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/languageminis
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Are 1milliontweets worth the $1 they cost
I hope it becomes clearer as the idea grows and the promotion for this new cause to use Twitter gains steam.
@1milliontweets is an account for a charity that is asking for $1 to tweet through their account. They hope to reach 1 million tweets and their by write a book and raise some money for their causes. The Twestival for water charity was really well supported and I feel went with the theme of twitter for social gathering. This seems to cache in on the million dollar homepage that got a lots of publicity.
For a charity fair enough, but for twitter in this way I am not sure how good it is on a new account. When I wrote this had 173 followers, so the value to people sending messages at the moment is around that mark, where as after a few hundred thousand messages $1 will go a lot further for a company. Also with twitter being as it is you could just @1milliontweets or #1milliontweets in your message and it will be almost as effective.
Anyway we can watch and wait for how this works for them.
@1milliontweets is an account for a charity that is asking for $1 to tweet through their account. They hope to reach 1 million tweets and their by write a book and raise some money for their causes. The Twestival for water charity was really well supported and I feel went with the theme of twitter for social gathering. This seems to cache in on the million dollar homepage that got a lots of publicity.
For a charity fair enough, but for twitter in this way I am not sure how good it is on a new account. When I wrote this had 173 followers, so the value to people sending messages at the moment is around that mark, where as after a few hundred thousand messages $1 will go a lot further for a company. Also with twitter being as it is you could just @1milliontweets or #1milliontweets in your message and it will be almost as effective.
Anyway we can watch and wait for how this works for them.
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Launching a new language learning site
We have just started to beta our new site. Learn about learning Spanish or start learning French as well as Italian, German and English. We will be adding more languages to the site soon.
The site is for people to share what learning a new language was like and us to share ways of learning and where is good to do it. So visit www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/ today.
The site is for people to share what learning a new language was like and us to share ways of learning and where is good to do it. So visit www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/ today.
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Expressionengine related articles code
Just found out a way of doing related entries in a slightly nicer way than just (In same category, latest first).
Use track_views and get counts for weblog entries not just templates. you can then sort buy the view count, giving you the most read stories.
It is not ture related articles but at least it is most popular articles in a category, and it will keep updating, but not jump as much as sort by date.
You can remove the {view_count_one}, just for effect.
Single Entry page: (you will need to look at the source)
Use track_views and get counts for weblog entries not just templates. you can then sort buy the view count, giving you the most read stories.
It is not ture related articles but at least it is most popular articles in a category, and it will keep updating, but not jump as much as sort by date.
You can remove the {view_count_one}, just for effect.
Single Entry page: (you will need to look at the source)
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{weblog_name}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="1" track_views="one"}
{title}
--{view_count_one}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{!-- Followed by --}
{exp:weblog:entries related_categories_mode="on" limit="3" orderby="view_count_one"}
{if count == "1"}
Related Articles
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
Yahoo! Web Analytics gets out and closer to the whole web
Dennis blogged about Yahoo! Web Analytics getting out to Yahoo advertisers and Store owners today. I think there are alot of people like me watching and waiting for IndexTools release as Yahoo! Web Analytics for the last five months.
I really want to move from Google Analytics to Yahoo Analytics as IndexTools seems such a great product from the demonstation I saw Dennis and SnowValley do a great talk in London a couple of months ago. Dennis is really good so hope this runs and runs.
I really want to move from Google Analytics to Yahoo Analytics as IndexTools seems such a great product from the demonstation I saw Dennis and SnowValley do a great talk in London a couple of months ago. Dennis is really good so hope this runs and runs.
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