Euro2008, you’re killing my productivity

June 24, 2008

On June 7, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. Central European Time, the Swiss and Czech national soccer teams started Europe’s big productivity killer, “Euro2008“.  Since that night I watched soccer for 14 consecutive nights, sometimes two games per night, sometimes just one.  Last night there was finally a breather as they prepare for the first semi-final [...]

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Summer in Vienna

May 30, 2008

I’m repeating myself, but I must say again how nice the weather has been.  Next month is going to be crazy in Vienna as it co-hosts Euro 2008.  So for now it’s a bit of the “calm before the storm”, so to speak. Yesterday after work I enjoyed one of the many attractions along the [...]

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Django debugging

May 26, 2008

Spent a while reviewing Simon Willison’s Debugging Django presentation.  Asserting False to get exception pages and dropping into pdb with set_trace() weren’t new to me, but pdb.pm() and, most especially, using the test client in an interactive shell were new ideas and very interesting indeed.  Check it out if you don’t know what I mean [...]

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Weekly TWiD yearning satisfied

May 20, 2008

I can’t say enough about the value TWiD has had for me. Because I haven’t yet had the opportunity to work with Django in a day-to-day professional capacity, it has been easy to let my Django learning slip through the cracks. But with TWiD I have a sure-fire way to keep my interest going week [...]

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Beautiful weather in Vienna

May 17, 2008

We’ve had some fantastic weather over the last 10 days or so here in Vienna, Austria.  It’s been very clear and sunny, yet not too hot.  About a week ago I left the building at work (that’s in the 7th district), looked at the sky, and decided I needed to walk rather than jump on [...]

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How one becomes lazy (when one is being translated by Django)

May 17, 2008

I’ve enjoyed digging even deeper into the lazy text questions that I came up with last time. The “thingamajig” returned by ugettext_lazy indeed waits until unicode is called upon it, then it runs through translation. You can see this by the way ugettext_lazy is defined. It’s in core/utils/translation/__init__.py: core/utils/translation/__init__.py ugettext_lazy = lazy(ugettext, unicode) That call [...]

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How lazy can text get?

May 15, 2008

Inspired by Malcolm Tredinnick‘s appearance on TWiD 19, I decided to create a small dummy site and work through the steps of translating it to German. Setting up all the translation files was easy enough, but then the first thing that bit me was overlooking this instruction on Django’s Internationalization documentation page: Always use lazy [...]

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