So far I have been part of a number of IT related companies (still is), but a couple of weeks ago I (together with some other guys) started Living Energy. For once it’s not an IT company.
Living Energy sells solar heating systems, so it’s going to be a (hopefully fun) challenge to work with a different product. And actually something with a real moveable / transportable product :)
Over at pagegangster we just launched a great feature that allows people to browse publications on their mobile devices. Instead of writing a app for the iPhone and iPad platform this was done with regular HTML and javascript. In my opinion this is why it’s so cool. As you can read on Morten Barklunds blog we detect the user agent and display a range of converted pictures.
If you got time, go see the introduction video.
I was actually planning on making my march something about running in the lovely spring weather. Well, there are stille traces of snow and I injured my knee, so I better come up with something different. Especially now when one third of the month have already passed. So I’m setting a goal that should be easier and entertaining at the same time. So see 45 good movies. Good is a strange term, in this contexts mean that the movie is represented on icheckmovies.com and I haven’t seem them before. A prette lame challenge if you don’t consider that I will receive my PS3 today. Spending time watching movies instead of shooting birds and buildings in GTA4 will be a challenge.
The list completed so far: Continue reading
So this is the first of my monthly challenges.
I’m a pretty good typer on a normal QWERTY keyboard (numbers later). Many people are faster and more than those are slower. I don’t really need the ability to type faster, so learning the Dvorak layout and using it comes from a number of other reasons:
Number 3 is of cause not an actual problem, but a 2 bullet list is just to short. I’ll try to speed test my Dvorak typing each day in the month and put it into a nice graph. I speed tested my querty speed on speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com, and completed with 332 points, 81 words per minute, 440 chars a minute and 0 errors.
Big updates on pagegangster.com. We introduced the standalone product so people can download the entire e-catalogue and put it on a CD, their own webserver, an USB stick or whatever they want. We’re really excited about this launch, so go check out the new website and products. We also made a number of other changes making it possible to purchase a number of activations directly in the system. This is really good news for the customers looking for mass discounts.
Getting slightly technical for a moment, we learned a painful lesson regarding migrating data from one structure to another using the Django ORM. By mistake we tried to update a lot of models one by one. After waiting for over 90 minutes we rewrote that specific data migration in raw SQL and completed it in 3 minutes. I love the ORM but you have to be careful.
Seeing this update from a Django developers point of view the best news is that we’re not using wordpress for drive our main website. We can now concentrate on making the more hard core backend stuff. And besides some cache trouble it’s hard to beat wordpress in the usability game.
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