I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to media organization. In regards to music, I keep FLAC separate from mp3. I have a structure that looks like music/flac/ and music/mp3/. There are times when I want FLAC files (listening at home) and times when I want mp3s (mobility). The problem is there is not a...
For quite a while now my girlfriend and I have been using Evernote to store and view the recipes we have acquired over the years. My biggest issue with the system was how we were viewing them: on our phones. I wanted something a little bigger than my phone. There was also the issue of backlights and locking. Either I...
For the past year or so I've been playing EVE. I often found myself needing to purchase something and looking through EVE-Central (a site which displays where items are for sale and how much they are). The best prices were typically many jumps away. In my head...
I use [Sublime Text] as my primary editor. Whenever I use my paste tool the source is typically from Sublime. To save the copy/paste steps involved I created a plugin to automatically paste selected text - or the entire document - to my site. This missing part of this process is editing the pastes after they go live, but that's...
I have a large set of files which I mostly use in Linux but occassionaly I need to access them in Windows. Unfortunately, some of these files have invalid Windows characters, such as : and ?. When viewing this in Windows the filenames show up as garbage. I needed something that would allow me to view these files in Windows without duplicating...
I recently picked up an areca ARC-1280ML-4G. It's a fantastic card, highly recommended. I decided to go with some Seagate Barracuda 3TB hard drives. I split them into two five-disk RAID-5 arrays (thinking about future expansion...
Django's development server does some very convenient things. One of them is service static media for the Admin site. When moving to a production server, in my case I was using nginx to host the static content, the media files were returning a 404.
I made two changes. In my settings.py file, I changed ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to `ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin_media...
For a cryptography class a couple years ago, a friend (Bryan Wintermute) and I created something to show how the Playfair cipher works.
Half of the project consisted of demonstrating Playfair while the other half was me seeing what I could do with jQuery and moving objects around the page...