Ideas

Django has won me over. But it can be improved! Delivering web applications using django is a sublime experience – its core ‘do not repeat yourself’ philosophy and the built in admin application makes development of applications easy and fun. There remains however a major source of “repeating yourself” with django. The schema in the database...
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If you (like me) find chasing down references for academic assignments to be a challenge then you may be interested in this. My use-case is the exploring stage where you would like to save a reference then search Scholar for that author and/or search on the title of the article. I have just enabled Refworks...
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Ambi is proving to be a great extensible RPN calculator. Applying the ‘zen’ of RPN to programming fun! Enjoy the new release of Ambi. This week I have discovered that the seq operator is not necessary.  Initially, I thought that seq would be necessary, however it turns out that the other lambda operators are sufficient.  So...
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Typealyzer correctly analysed this blog and nailed me as an INTJ.  Great work.  Try it out!
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I love RPN calculators.  My favorite is Hypatia which I use regularly for calculations.  I love being able to order my calculation to avoid brackets and being able to enter a list of numbers and add them up with a single command: hy 12 23.4 43 94 3 d SUMNow I am wondering about a...
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An internal map can be matched to the integration of distance and direction measurements. See pdf.
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I am bugged by buying stamps. What about a personal franking machine? See pdf.
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