Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Today’s update was brought forth from the sticky situation my software architecture decisions have left me. In theory my data models, python views, and HTML templates should be made to follow one another. I developed each of those with considerations somewhat independent of each other, so...

Today’s update is brought to you by the very, very, declarative rhetoric of SQLAlchemy. I went along with Flask bringing in SQLAlchemy because I heard good things about it. I wanted to sink my teeth deeper into ORM, especially on the model creation side. It would be lying if I said I have no...

The big weekend update was the product of impulsive coding. I did not have any clear objective. What I did have was forty ounces of hot coffee brewed, a few hours with my battlestation, and enough zen leftover from work to put in some possibly difficult work. What came out was some ugly...

There has been rapid development over the past few days. Fortune favored me with some coding situations that were rather straightforward in their approach. So straightforward that I hammered through any problem rather than taking a step out of my coding brain tunnels to think through the changes...

That big data overhaul I allude to here and there- mostly in reports of my inaction - has got to happen. It will happen. I’m starting right now. I’m tired of trying to hunt down all the sloppy fixes I made that pop up whenever I try to improve something somewhat unrelated. My logic and data...

You know what? No updates. Not one. I’ve been busy. The day job has been heavy on the coding each day, so there is not much gas left in the tank when I sign off for the day. I suppose I could clean up some of the CSS by getting rid of all the per-element styling and put them into a base...