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Judging by the title, this book seems targeted at beginners. Nonetheless, I decided to buy it since I'm using Django in my current side project.

I have a question (not related to my side project). I maintain a list of my eBook library where I put the following information about the eBooks I have (data for this book in parentheses): Publisher (Leanpub), Title (Hello Web App), Authors (Tracy Osborn), Published (), Purchased (2015-07-08), Last known update (2015-05-08), Catalog Page (http://leanpub.com/hellowebapp), Read duration (). As you can see, I was unable to determine what to put in the Published field. I would like to have information for this on the form Month Year. Could someone -- preferably Tracy or a Leanpub employee -- tell me what to put there?

PS: If you'd like to see my eBook library list, you can find it at http://www.erikano.net/eBooks/purchased.htm. Note that some of the books at the bottom of the list are ones I am not so interested in reading any longer.


So you have books that are - Not started reading, not finished reading, recommended. You are missing the "finished reading, but not recommended", don't you think? Or maybe I am reading things wrong.


I have now made a new label for eBooks I discourage and I also wrote a clarification about neutral books -- those without any legend. Thanks for pointing out this element of confusion.


2015-05-04 would be the published date.


Ok, thanks :) Just to confirm, though, that's May 2015, right? (And not the 5th of April 2015.)


Yes :)


XQuartz might be of interest to you. It used to be included with OS X in older releases but is an external download now. http://xquartz.macosforge.org/

After you've installed it, you can test that it works by typing

    xeyes
in your terminal. That should show two googly eyes.

Then ssh to some other machine with X forwarding enabled. To do that, ensure the remote host has

    X11Forwarding yes
in

    /etc/ssh/sshd_config
then

    ssh -X example.com
Assuming the server has the necessary X11 libraries and xeyes is installed on the server, you can once again type

    xeyes
and you'll see the googly eyes again but what you are actually seeing is them running from the remote machine.

Hope this helps though I'm not sure it is quite what you're looking for.

(Personally, I use X forwarding very rarely, prefering the terminal for almost everything but browsing the web.)


Dead comment by user bombless. Reposting so Carol gets to see the comment (since she asked specifically for additional ways to find information) in case she doesn't have show dead on.

>About the ‵mod′ keyword in ‵use′, if you ask it on IRC I'm sure many people including me would point you the relevant PR that was made around October. Nice article by the way.


Thank you, both of you! :)


Does this still work more or less the same with Django 1.8?


It is currently a manual process.

This first entry I made by

    TZ=UTC echo $( date +%YT%T%z ). <message>
Which I copied to my clipboard and then manually created the TXT record for and then the CNAME.

Next time I want to add an entry, I will:

    expr $( host head.microblog.erikano.net \
            | egrep -o '[^ ]*$' | cut -d'.' -f1 ) + 1
To get the ID for the post to be made and then echo calling date as I did for the first post.

Had I still been hosting the DNS server myself, I would've turned this into a script and appended the entry as a TXT record directly and updated the CNAME to the new value using sed.

Actually, thank you for asking because I just realized what my next little project should be: Instead of the way I'm doing it now, I can selfhost a little DNS server which will be authorative over microblog.erikano.net while still hosting the DNS for the rest of erikano.net and my other domains where I have them now. The project will be written in Go since I have been wanting to make something in Go but didn't finish the other things I started writing in Go. I have no ETA for the microblog DNS selfhost server project because of work and current projects.

Hope I didn't misunderstand the question but if I did and you meant how to update the microblog when I'm out and about, the answer is I would need to use a web browser currently to manually update the records. When my own server has been written, I simply ssh to my VPS which hosts the server and run a cli tool I will name "mb" ("microblog") with my message as argument.


Never heard of that website, seems useful. Unless I am missing something, however, it seems that while the OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD sources are up to date, the FreeBSD sources are out of date from 09-Dec-2013.


I disagree. I think the logo is nice, I think it looks ok even in small size, I don't think it unbalanced the NeXT machines when it was put on them, I think the colors are cute and the font is sharp.


Well, fair enough. I don't think you would be a good designer though. As brutal as that may sound, design is a full contact sport. I'd say the same to you in person.


Your comment fascinates me, as if you feel you can uniquely tease out the objective from what most consider largely subjective. I'm not contesting, just curious for elaboration. Is it designer hubris, like audiophile, or wine tasting hubris, or a reproducible, measurable thing? Are you implying that he'd be a bad consumer as well, because he responds abnormally, and that other laymen would have less appreciation for the Next logo? Does your experience let you tap into something fundamental? Do people universally react similarly to certain design features in an exploitable way? Is it a percentage game? Or do designers design mainly for other designers? Is it all post-rationalization?


would that logo look good scaled down on a computer display from 1986? No. It is objectively bad.

All I had to do to invalidate that design was to think of the place it will most often be used.


>would that logo look good scaled down on a computer display from 1986? No. It is objectively bad.

BS, it looked just fine:

http://www.osdata.com/system/ui/screens/next.jpg

And in fact he printed it in various scales (large to tiny), in both color and black and white, to show how it still looked identifiable and good (not shown properly in TFA, you can find the design studies with the various sizes on the web easily, its part of the same document).


Can you point us to some of your superior logos?



> I don't think you would be a good designer though.

I was willing to entertain the (far-fetched) notion that you actually know what you're talking about, up until that line.


Presence of a "-v" flag usually means verbose.


Alternately, version. Either way it's clobbering


Too late now, too many comments in the thread. Does it matter who posted the thread anyway?


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