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Yesterday, I was able to  to get django, installed with mysql support.  I used several websites to get it working right.

1) i installed mysql (64bit) from the official builds on mysql.com

2) i installed virtualenv from setuptools. I typed the following:

$ sudo easy_install virtualenv

3)  I created directory for my virtual environment for python by typing following:

$ virtualenv -v mydjango

4)  Downloaded mysql python module from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/ placed it in mydango directory.

5) in the shell, i went into mydango directory.

6)  I then activated the virtualized python envirtonment

7) I then  compiled  mysql driver by typing the following

$ ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ python setup.py build

8)  installed the driver. typed the following

$ python setup.py install

9)  I downloaded django and placed it in mydango directory

10) Installed django by typing

$ python setup.py install

Namespaces in action – Stubblog

This is cool .. seems like there is a patch for namespaces for php5. so it seems that namespace might come with php 6? if it comes sooner then it would be much more cooler.

Obviously there is a lot of social networking websites out there.. it is all very walled garden like .  though facebook has started to open things up a bit.  i have been thinking there has to be a better way of sharing all “friend” information between them in a decentralized way. i am not sure of the total concept yet .. but something a long the lines of FOAF file formating. I  might need to ruminate it a little more though.

I went to a lecture / demo of the graphitti research lab. It Pratt Institute’s DAL and DDA . It was really cool. I took some pics on my cell phone of the demo

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for the past few months, I have been doing a lot of work. I was trying to write a custom CMS for Pratt Institute website.  It was quite the expericene. i learned a lot … of course there were mistakes made..

i think might just do some post postmortem on the whole project.

I saw a interesting post on planet rubyonrails . Lucas Carlson how he went from PHP to Ruby to  Lisp .  I always regretted not learning Lisp as a undergrad. I want to learn it because it might actually improve my programming abilities.

I just saw the demo of web clipboard system from Ray Ozzie. His blog post explains concept very well. The concept of sharing structured data between web pages and apps . The concept is so simple, I thought it would have been developed sooner. the screencast are cool. i wonder if there will be ports for live clip for linux and mac…

Currently, I work at Pratt Institute. I am right now creating a new cms system for their new website . It is essentially be a basic cms system for multiple users. Only added wrinkle is that I adding a editing feature . This is all nice and cool. However, when this project is done I would like to do something more for the “Pratt” community.

I guess want to create nice web apps in the “web 2.0″ style that can be used by the whole community. I need to think about how the tools should look like. I think these tools should be very simple and flexible. I think this would my apps to be used the most. I heard dan bricklin on gillmor gang show talking about applications that become popular. He was saying that spreadsheet became popular was because it was pliable to different functions and users. I need to keep in mind that the audience i am developing for . At pratt, mostly artists and academics will be using it . I would have to make the functionality based around this fact.

who knows..

it would suck if this would happen if the rumors are true . I don’t want Oracle to be in control of Zend .  it would make the future of php very  very cloudy. ..

Past few days, I have been using Mozilla 1.5. I have to say that there is a lot improvements in the browser. The one thing i was looking forward to was SVG. It seems there is a chance svg + javascripting may become a light weight alternative flash.. however, the the pc cpu usage with scripted svg becomes really unweildy. i tested it by trying canvascape. A walk around similiar to doom. The canvas scape took 70 percent cpu usage when running around the maze. i wonder what would happen if svg + javascript+ ajax was used in a application..