Django Documentation and Misadventures

Seh Hui Leong

Programming

Currently am learning [Django][django], which is a popular web framework in Python. And whichever framework I chose to learn, I greatly preferred having my documentation offline as I didn’t really find myself constantly offline (it helps to concentrate on my work, actually). In the case of Django, the documentation was provided in ReST text format (refer to the [FAQ entry][djfaq]) and it’s possible to generate a PDF version out of it.

… Well, until the fact that I found out that there’s no explicit mention on what to get to generate it.

Cutting a long story short (I’ll save the grueling details to myself), now you’d two options:

  1. [Download the PDF version here (Aug 1, 2009)][djpdf], which I generated from the recent Django 1.1 package
  2. Do it …
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A Fresh New Look

The original conceptual design for A Day in Life ver.2

Seh Hui Leong

Projects

It’s been a while I haven’t posted here :D! With my recent announcement over my LiveJournal that this will be my new permanent spot for my personal journal. And sort of adding that personal touch, I finally got around and creating a fresh look for it.

And lo and behold, the new look is already up and running - though at the time of writing (27 June 2009) Internet Explorer users may end up seeing a less optimal site, since I haven’t got around fixing the theme yet (looking forward to making it work this weekend though).

The original conceptual design for A Day in Life ver.2

Developing this theme has been quite a feat to me, which I style it with pure CSS with minimal cruft and I also experimented with CSS3 text-shadows (to view the full effect, do use Firefox 3 …

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Addicted to Math

Seh Hui Leong

Life

'Project Euler progress'

Am addicted to Project Euler: math can indeed be addictive when you know there’s an absolute answer that you need to solve ;).

Now 9 more to go to achieve Level 1.