Archive for January, 2011

Smooth Criminal

I’ve never been a fan of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. I have always liked Alien Ant Farm’s cover of it though. It looks like I may have a new favorite cover. These cellists completely rock out. Who knew?

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Python List Filter Helper

In a previous post, I mentioned I’ve been doing a lot of datagrid work lately. In addition to column sorting another feature I’ve added is the filtering of the datagrid by a specific value in a column. Most of these columns contain string values that we can use the same logic on, over and over [...]

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Folsom Prison Gangsta

Those of you who have been around for a while know how much I love mashups. I especially love it if the mashup is some unusual variation on a rap song. I’ve had a copy of this one laying around for a while and it’s still one of my favorites. DJ Topcat put together this [...]

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Python In-Memory Sort Helper

I’ve been doing a lot of work on datagrids lately. My datagrid work is originally based off of Djblets datagrids. One of the cool things about these datagrids is the ability to sort by any column in the grid. This is a problem if the sorting occurs at the query level and you are dealing [...]

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Treadmill Desk Version 2.0

The last time I was motivated to lose weight I setup a table over my treadmill and walked while I worked. This was very productive and I ended up losing about 40 pounds. Now, that I’m getting back into the work out routine I thought I would do the same thing. There was just one [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions

With the passing of the old year and the beginning of the new, many people make their traditional “New Year’s Resolutions”. I’ve usually eschewed these resolutions that more than likely will fail anyway. This year I’ve decided to give this whole resolution thing a go. I’m going to be successful at it too. I’m not [...]

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