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[1st-soft] Google Tasks Bookmarklet

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:48:59 GMT

I read Lifehacker's article about using the gmail tasks gadget outside of gmail with chrome. I made myself a bookmarklet to emulate the effect in firefox (or any other browser for that matter). You can tweak it to your preferred window size pretty easily. Here's the raw code. (Looks like I can't post javascript links in soup. Bummer.)

javascript: void(window.open("https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig","_blank","height=400,width=300,location=0,menubar=0"));

[1st-soft] Google App Engine

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:53:55 GMT

Now that I've taken the time to really learn how to use Django, I've decided to revisit app engine. I was glad to see it is a bit simpler to get a new project started with app engine than it is with django. The documentation has improved from the last time I tried it out as well (or I might just understand it better).

In any case, I've started working on an app to extend the benefits of Google Docs: Download to anyone, with or without greasemonkey. Check back for updates.

[1st-soft] New Project

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:34:50 GMT

I've been doing research on what the Wiimote is capable of after learning about Johnny Chung Lee's Wiimote Desktop VR demonstration and started work on tracking line-of-site using the wiimote and the cwiid library. Hopefully this isn't something someone else has already done, or something implemented in cwiid that I missed. In any case, I'll be writing about my progress on the above website.

http://wmlos.blogspot.com/

[1st-soft] Where to Go When Google Notebook Goes Down

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:30:47 GMT

A few months back I wrote a greasemonkey script for google notebooks allowing you to download your notebooks all in one pass using DownThemAll (similar to GDD). It looks like that script will be more useful than I anticipated now that Google is winding down development on notebook. Check out Lifehacker's take on the news, as well as the Google Notebook Download script.

http://lifehacker.com/5131781/where-to-go-when-google-notebook-goes-down

[1st-soft] Mouthful: Custom django admin inline model forms

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:50:49 GMT

Disclaimer: I'm a Django novice.

I'm putting together a Django site that has galleries of pictures. By inlining the pictures into the gallery form I'm able to manage both types of data on the same page and easily add more pictures to that gallery. However, I don't want to see all the fields for editing a picture, just the most important stuff.

Django, if I understand this correctly, either wants me to set the inline model's formset variable to an inlineformset_factory class or the form variable to a ModelForm. Here's my admin.py (dpaste)

Turns out that didn't have any impact on what fields showed up in the inline forms. After much googling and frustration I decided for the heck of it to provide a field tuple to the inline model class. Here's my revised admin.py (also dpaste)

Turns out that works, and isn't part of the Django docs for InlineModelAdmin objects. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but this did do what I wanted it to do and was not able to find any info on it anywhere. Hopefully this will prove useful to someone who's frustrated with the same problem.

[1st-soft] Greasemonkey: Export Google Notebooks to TSV

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:43:19 GMT

Here's a gm script I wrote recently for converting the html version of a google notebook into TSV. It doesn't generate a file, but if you need to import the notebook data somewhere then this might help get the job done. Note: It only handles simple notes, I haven't tested it for much beyond text.

http://1st-soft.net/gnd/googlenotebookcsv.user.js

[1st-soft] Christmas Every Day Greasemonkey User Script

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:02:20 GMT

For those of you who wish it was Christmas every day. [Requires greasemonkey]

See IsItChristmas.com

http://1st-soft.net/christmaseveryday.user.js

[1st-soft] Updated version of GDD released.

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:11:48 GMT

I posted up a new version of Google Docs Download last night, fixing some issues with how the script interacts with the presentations interface. Turns out it was getting confused when google used iframes in the interface and tried to load itself into each of them. It's been a couple months since I last updated, so hopefully (assuming nothing big changes at google docs) things will continue to run smoothly.

http://1st-soft.net/gdd/

[1st-soft] Presentation on PHP

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:42:45 GMT

This is the presentation I did for my programming languages course at Edinboro University. It's just a basic introduction to PHP as a language in contrast to other languages and as a language for web development.

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=df4v87w3_343dgwhnxfh