I’ve been getting into some JQuery lately and will be posting some slideshow code I’ve built. First, though – learning Python and Django has been something new to play with for the past few days. I ran into a problem getting Django to work with a database. The rest was pretty straight-forward, so if you’re looking to get Python updated and Django installed, check out this article: Install Django Official Release
MySQL vs SQLite3
I first tried MySQL because I am fairly familiar with it and it is pretty ubiquitous, but while MySQL appears simple to install at first, I ran into a few crazy errors:
ERROR 1133 (42000): Can’t find any matching row in the user table
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named MySQLdb
error: command ‘gcc-4.2′ failed with exit status 1
The first was solved by connecting to MySQL as ‘root’@'localhost’ – ok, great.
Finally, I had gcc (a C compiler) installed with XCode, it was version 4.2.1, but my only explanation was it wasn’t working because it was the 64bit version and I have a 32bit Macbook.
Open Terminal and see that SQLite3 comes installed
$ sqlite3
If yes, then (why did we mess with MySQL?)
.exit (that’s dot exit to quit back to terminal)
cd /your/django/project/ (or near it)
$ sqlite3 mydatabase.db; (don’t forget the semi-colon)
.databases (to verify creation and path)
In your project’s settings.py, use ‘django.db.backends.sqlite3′ and ‘/your/django/project/mydatabase.db’
Run python manage.py syncdb
Success!
If you found this helpful, please visit a sponsor and get me some of that google money. Also, check out this book for learning Django – I’m using it now and can recommend it: Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours.
I’ll be attending the UGAConnect conference (today) and have had a hard time sleeping tonight. Figured it’d be good to post something about what I’ve been working on. Who knows if a future employer will be looking.
Wuog.org launched a website with new architecture – Wordpress MU. With the help of some automated recording and uploading, DeeJays can display show recordings and show notes in around 10 minutes.
The new school semester is going well; it’s definitely my most challenging year.
The article about my chances of catching H1N1 needs to be updated because 1) Chances have raised significantly and 2) H1N1 circulated around the UGA campus, and I may or may not have contracted swine flu.
More recent in time and therefore personally relevant, my first shift at the Daily Co-Op was yesterday (Friday). I learned how to use a cash register (old-school). If you’re visiting Athens, Ga and interested in the food movement, you should pay them a visit.
Finally, I’ve decided my Halloween costume for this year – Bee Keeper!
“Musings on life, love and the Internet” had gotten stale and no longer described the purpose this website is serving.
With posts like the Swine Flu and NTSF backups for Time Machine getting popular, I want to focus content more on one-off sort of mashups. I like the idea of throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks.
The phrase “Internet is a good word” applies to my general feelings on the Internet and could eventually be used as a name to do website design under.
This paper was the culmination of a semester in Speech Comm. 3300, a rhetorical critisism class. The paper conducts a full rhetorical analysis of Walmart’s new logo by describing the context of the act (the logo change), how the materiality of the store is associated, and the effect the overall experience has on the consumer.
Comments are highly encouraged. I’ve been asked to enter it into the southern states communication association (SSCA) convention writing competition and will likely do so around September. Comments will likely be used for this revision.
Save Money. Live Better. Hypermart
“The hypermarket is already. . . the model of all future forms of controlled socialization: retotalization in a homogenous space-time of all the dispersed functions of the body, and of social life (work, leisure, food, hygiene, transportation, media, culture)” (Baudrillard p. 76).
In July of 2008, “Wal-mart” changed to “Walmart” – an unremarkable change by most standards, but Walmart’s rebranding efforts is not something the company took lightly. The visual logo of the world’s largest retailer is a calculated piece of rhetoric meant to persuade (Demos). Through this one image Walmart reveals its desires to project a persona. The repeated, unconscious and almost inescapable viewing of the logo makes it a powerful rhetorical device.
1) My Chances of Contracting Swine Flu got a number of hits from Google and continues to do so. I’ve updated it to be relevant and more informative for those who find it.
2) I contracted Swine Flu this last weekend. Probably not. I got very sick with an upper respiratory infection that spread to my lungs. It spread very quickly and has now all but gone away now.
