Tobias came to Copenhagen, and gave me a copy of Best software writing I a collection edited by Joel Spolsky
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“Finding it was quite hard,” he said “even in a city like London.”
Oh, and I am happy-happy about that book.
Now: a week’s vacation.
More frameworks that map relational databases to rich object-oriented models! Today’s news is a Python framework. It’s been developed during two years for use at a newspaper in Kansas.
Read more in the real description: Django at a glance tells the short of it, and Simon Willison says more at his weblog.
You create a data description (kind of like an SQL table schema but with additional information about validation rules and interface widgets) and load it in to Django. Django then creates the database tables, model classes and a comprehensive web-based administration interface for your site’s staff. All that’s left for you to do manually is the code for the public site, which is generally a case of writing a few lines of controller code, configuring some URLs and knocking out some templates.
A bit like Paul M Jones’ PEAR class DB_Table where you describe the data structure in your program, and have the database knit together after that.
My friend with the great singing voice Tobias takes a historical drive down LARP’s memory lane: Drama exercises is the new costume-making.
He chronicles the descent of Swedish LARP “seriousness” (and also defines what that term meant, at the time).
(I now see that I need to tag my posts more specifically. LARP could be a tag. RPG Theory could be one, too. Feed the metadata-monsters!)
I can not believe I waited this long to do this upgrade. What could go wrong? Everything, I thought. And yet, it went flawlessly.
As you can see, I have taken only one step away from the default theme, and installed another theme. Steps will be taken in the future.
What this move to a higher plane of bloggishness means is that I can begin recording and podcasting easier.
Come the time.
**Update**: OK, I could not stand the illegible standard typeface that this theme shipped with, so “Verdana”, as a magician could say.
Thanks to [Peter Rukavina](http://ruk.ca) for the term in the title of this post.
Restaurant Flow
Gyldenløvesgade 10
1369 Copenhagen K
Tel.: (+45) 33 14 43 43
Olle’s comment: Have not visited this place yet. I’d like to, but every time something comes up. Please chip in with commentary on this place.
> A cozy, tranquil atmosphere; non-smoking, no caffinated or alcoholic beverages. Food is prepared according to the ancient Indian nutritional system known as Ayurveda (science of life). The meal of the day (89 DKK) consists of a plate with three dishes made from grains, vegetables, beans/lentils, salad and spelt bread. Desserts and beverages are extra. Simple, good-tasting, healthy and filling. Open Mon-Sun 17:30-21:00.
Briton and computer geek Matt Webb and his blog Interconnected continues to amaze me.
The guy reads continental philosophy (Deleuze, no less), and discusses it like it was comic books. The way it should be discussed, at any rate. That goes for comic books, too, but the other conceptual way around. “A Thousand Plateaus was my Gödel, Escher, Bach” he states. But with humour. I freely quote the man, his command of his mother tongue is far superior.
I caught the last part of his magnificent presentation at reboot7 on the computer user interfaces of the future (as seen in films, or rather in the film adaptation of Minority Report). They use huge screens, and move items with gestures in the air in front of them. Video sequences represent objects, and throwing items aside tags them as interesting or uninteresting. If you know if/where Matt has put his presentation online, please comment here. It was good stuff, but I guess his presence made the show into a show, not just statements.
I take pleasure in the fact that Mr Webb is a great presenter. His powerfully positive attitude about dynamic languages is never made into dull yes-man-speak. He is also a great writer.
Have now moved. Phew.
New address:
> Prinsesse Charlottes Gade 40B, 3 th
> 2200 København N
> Denmark
Update: This move also meant that I could make my first Plazes location historical, that is, inactive. Now it shows as grey and abandoned, signifying the deadness of the Plaze after I moved out.