Vacation 2010

A frac­tion of the pic­tures taken on vaca­tion. A few more will be added, some pos­si­bly deleted.


New Toy

Well, I did what I didn’t think I would do, at least not as soon as I did. I bought an iPad. Joy and I just went on vaca­tion (obvi­ous from the pic­tures in pre­vi­ous post eh?) and we thought that it would be some­thing good to have on the trip. Both Joy and i


Django: Pt 2

A quick note to say as much as I like Django, it turns out I still get really frus­trated with Python. I keep get­ting stu­pid inden­ta­tion errors. I find that using spaces instead of tabs is as I said in my ear­lier post a big part of this. I just screw up spaces when I


Django as an Alternative

After really look­ing back and forth regard­ing WordPress and Drupal I decided to look around at dif­fer­ent devel­op­ment frame­works just for gig­gles and ran into Django (pro­nounced jango) again. I have run across Django before and usu­ally elim­i­nated it imme­di­ately because it is Python based instead of PHP. But for what ever silly rea­son… uhm,


WordPress and PostgreSQL (part 2)

Well, after a long thought I have decided to stick with WordPress for the time being which means I won’t be mov­ing every­thing over to PostgreSQL. I still have the same moti­va­tion for mov­ing to PostgreSQL that I had before but I am just com­fort­able for the time being with WordPress.


Lunch at Biaggi’s

For Easter, we had a nice fam­ily lunch at Biaggi’s, with Ma as matri­arch, Monnie and her kids, and Joy and I. Here are some pic­tures I took while there.


What about Joomla?

In my pon­der­ings about WordPress and PostgreSQL I was chal­lenged to con­sider Joomla. Believe me, I have con­sid­ered Joomla and rejected it, at least for my use. Let me give you a brief his­tory of Joomla and me.


WordPress and PostgreSQL (part 1)

Well, I just ran into what I con­sider a major road­block or maybe a fork in the road. I really want to move to using PostgreSQL exclu­sively, drop­ping MySQL. But WordPress is basi­cally being writ­ten for MySQL exclud­ing all other data­bases. This means I either have to give up on using PostgreSQL exclu­sively or give