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When building high performance Django sites, keeping the number of queries down is essential. And just like controlling technical debt and maintaining test coverage, being successful means making monitoring queries a natural part of your workflow. If your momentum has to be stopped to examine database queries, you’re not going to do it. The solution…
Read More Check yo queries before you wreck yo siteI finally got around to updating my canvas / sql visualization code. Interacting with the map is now much easier. And I’ve posted a live demo of it here: http://crccheck.com/demo02 It’s not as refined as google maps, but it’s still pretty fancy. Navigation is done in the minimap, and you can draw on the large…
Read More A new canvas demoI completely forgot about this mIRC script I made back in 2000, but apparently I was ahead of my time. I wrote a crowdsourcing script before there was crowdsourcing. The script was very simple, query it with !hme <name of show> and the script replies with how many episodes it thinks are in the show.…
Read More Blast from the Past [2000] my !hme scriptTried White Gummy – delicious+ Red Gummy – delicious Strawberry Shortcake – pretty good Want to Try Pink Starburst Orchard Oasis Peanut Butter and Jelly Skittles Raspberry Dreamin’ Pineapple Dreamin’ Apple Pie Not sure if my Jamba Juice knows about Fruity Pebbles Push Pop Bluetopia Sourpatch Kid Now and Later chocolate gummy bear Blue Gummy…
Read More Jamba Juice Secret MenuI wanted to write a Greasemonkey script to modify all mailto: links on a page, but to do that, I have to find them first. Here’s my first attempt: //a[@href]/text()[contains(.,”@”)] It’s pretty bad. I wanted to find links starting with “mailto:” but couldn’t figure out how to operate on the href attribute. second attempt: //a/@href[contains(.,”mailto:”)]/..…
Read More Using XPath to find email address linksAt first, I thought the little shroud on the Antec P182 (also on the P180) was a little annoying because it broke up the horizontal space that I could otherwise use for piling up misc crap. Lately, I’ve been putting my external hard drives on top of the shroud. The airflow helps cool them down.…
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