Entries during May 2009
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May292009
Agile Scotland Training day
I just came back from a training day titled: “Introduction to Lean and Agile - for Scottish Businesses”. This little crash course was presented by Clarke Ching and Rob Lally, both veterans of their fields.
I have to say that I'm using the term “crash course” very loosely, and may not do the day enough credit. What we got by the end for the sessions, was very valuable. I myself was under the impression that I understood most of the concepts, but quickly realized that I missed the ball on many levels.
Clarke …
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May282009
Using beautiful fonts as images on the web
During my spare time this week, I was thinking of how I can make my webiste a little bit nicer looking. I have been bothered for quite a while now by the “portlet” graphics (the Items on the right). So I eventually decided, it would be really nice if the text looked like it was hand-written on the wall.
Of course, this immediately posed a problem. I realized that, I will have to create a Image of the hand-written font, every time that I add a Blog Entry, Video or Project. This is bad. I then decided, it's …
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May142009
django-video Source on GitHub
I have finally gotten around to launch django-video.
The biggest question on my mind was about what licensing model to use. I finally decided to use the BSD Open Source License, and implemented this throughout the project.
The app is now hosted github, and you can also follow it on Cloud27
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May102009
django-video on Cloud27
I have decided to create a project for django-video, my video streaming applicaiton for django, on Cloud27. This makes it more official and gives me a good starting point. Cloud27 also has many django users that can contribute to the project, should they like it.
The code will be hosted on github, but this will only happen once I've decided what licensing model to use. If you have any suggestions on licenses, please feel free to leave a comment, and I'll look into it. Note that I'll only be considering proven, well known open source licenses.
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