Being able to locate the nearest elevator was a must have feature for me. Being able to deploy using the free tier on Heroku was a nice to have feature. Luckily, I managed to find a way to do both: do the calculations client side in JavaScript. Lucky for me, I found a post, Calculate…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 6: GeoDjango? We don’t need no stinkin’ GeoDjangoIntro: This is part five of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 5: nosql circa 1986Intro: This is part four of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators part 4: Django Data Driven Documents
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Intro: This is part three of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators part 3: Wherein data is actually importedIntro: This is part two of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators part 2: EZ ScrapeIntro: This is part one of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators part 1: rapid models.py developmentSo this weekend, I decided to scratch my own itch and figure out a way to play a random media file. Let’s say you’ve got a lot of tv shows or movies and you don’t want to browse… you want to channel surf. This is how you can do it in Windows: chcp 65001 setlocal…
Read More Media Roulette.batI just got back from my first PyCon! There were a lot of familiar faces. Which is quite an achievement for an introvert like myself. I finally got to meet people in the Python community as far away as Austin, TX. While finding people was easy in a crowd of 2,500, finding food was not.…
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