*Sigh* I'll never get caught up

[elfs]

I have six or seven blogs I intend on doing. A hundred stories or more. And now, now my manager at work tells me it's okay for me to blog about using Python for web development, and to show the recursion technique I use for turning HTML into Python (instead of the other way)... I'm allowed to problog my code, so long as I don't give away any crown jewels. I have more stories to write, and my blog titles include "Peasant Girls," "Writing as a Spectator Sport," "Texas Polygamists," "The Abortion Artist," "Thinking About Jim Thinking about Rape," "Antitheism," and "Plot? What Plot?"

Oh, and part one of my presentation, DWIM: Do What I Mean HTML Templating Using Python.. But that'll be going on my yet another blog, ElfSternberg.com. Announcements forthcoming.

Damn, I owe y'all another chapter of Sterlings, don't I?

If you want to see what I've been doing this week, and why I've been so quiet, you can check out my latest polisite, Friends of Tina Orwall, (and that means another blog entry for the coding blog, "Using Wordpress as a CMS for Political Campaign Websites"). Omaha and I just finished it last night; now it's up to her press people to populate the page engine. I need to find a way to automate the Page Views exclusion system. What do you guys think of the design? It's pretty routine, but I think it balanced nicely.

Really, the art was the hardest part. I'm so in love with my Wacom pad it's unnatural.

If only I didn't have a life. Well, if tomorrow's weather is crappy, I'll spend it writing and cooking. If it's nice, I'll spend it riding my bike and falling further behind.

Comments

[deedop.livejournal.com]

My love for my Wacom pad knows no bounds.

I'd be interested in reading about Wordpress as CMS for polisites, as my web design focus right now is almost exclusively Wordpress as CMS for author & small business sites.

Tina Orwall's site: simple & uncluttered, which is nice, though I would have the strongest urge to ask the campaign for content photos. It's a personal preference, but I always want to see lots of pics of candidate-in-action on a campaign site.

Sterlings Sterlings Sterlings Sterlings Sterlings

[(Anonymous)]

Please! :)

Re: Sterlings Sterlings Sterlings Sterlings Sterlings

[omahas.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, Elf will be posting the next chapter soon (like, maybe tomorrow). But if you need your Sterlings fix right now (all of it), you can pick up the whole novel! :)

Sterlings Novel

[(Anonymous)]

Not the same guy as above just FYI.

I've said it before, I would utterly love to buy the whole Sterlings. Only being outside the US and not being able to see worth a damn I'm reliant on my comp to verbally read content to me. I'll likely make a donation in place of buying the book on principle though, I recall there being donation links on pendorwright.com..

[(Anonymous)]

Nuts, they must have gone in the redesign. Scratch that.

Odd how there isn't a link to the print version of Sterlings on the main page though too.

[(Anonymous)]

The donation link is on the Journals Archive page... :)

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, one of the drawbacks to using computers as I do - you miss little nuances like that.

Now if only Lulu would allow the publishing of daisy books... (think a talking ebook, but just as often on a CD - one CD for a whole unabridged book, finally)

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Know anything about porting sqlite3 to a Mac from linux? The Consort is having Python troubles so I thought I'd ask around.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Not really. I don't do much Mac. Sqlite3 builds fine on Linux, so my instinct would be to dump the database to a portable serialization format using the .dump command, and then you could cat dumpfile.sql | sqlite3 dbfile.db (or whatever suffixes you use).

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

I have clarification. He can't make the Python interface to sqlite3 work on a Mac, and apparently teh Intarwebz only knows about sqlite2 and Django. Any suggestions on where I could point him?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Python 2.5 comes with a native SQLite3 API: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sqlite3.html

I don't know about earlier versions, though.