I Want to Trust Feedly, I Do
Over the years I have grown accostomed to Google Reader too much. Like many other people, Google’s decision to pull the plug on the service made me sad. However I am not one of those people who believe providers of free services have an obligation to their users. No. What needs to be done is to find an alternative.
django-simple-friends 1.0.0 is soon to be released
I am preparing to release a new version of django-simple-friends soon. It will feature some minor improvements and Django 1.4.5 support [1]. So please send any pull-requests you want to be included in this release.
Also I have just created a mail group for this app. Feel free to join and ask your questions. But as with any open source project, there are no guarantees.
Not Everyone Play Games for the Challenge
I have recently uninstalled a strategy game becuase it was too difficult for me even in the easy mode. You might say I am not a good strategy player, but that is really beside the point. The point is I like strategy games and continuously failing in a game make it impossible to extract joy from the experience.
If It Ain’t Broken, Look for What You Can Improve
You know the famous marshmallow experiment, don’t you? When faced with a tough decision some people choose the easy option, some choose the hard one. You will face some tough decisions in software development. My experience is people are not too eager to take the hard path. Especially if the subject is refactoring.
Quick Debian tip for Testing Static HTML Sites
For trivial stuff directing your browser to file:///path/to/your/page.html does the trick. However if you need to test your page on a real webserver, setting one up can be a hassle. More than that, I dislike leaving crubmles of config files on my dev machine.