Category: Technology

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Today is the day I started developing what right now is called TLW, which stands for the Lagom model.

Loosely based upon the Swedish model, and “Lagom”, which means “Enough is as good as a feast”, this is an attempt to make it easier to show your gratitude towards the musicians (and later movie makers and game creators) who we all love. It’s all about contributing in order to support further creations.

Today means that I will work from home every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during a limited time.
Technically speaking, I will build TLW using the Django framework (for order), together with a sprinkle of jQuery (for magic matters, that is). As my web hosts, I’ve chosen to work with Webfaction which offer good and reliable support for Django.

In order to setup a temporary office, I’ve bought a keyboard and a mouse.
This is how it looked yesterday:

Before

And this is how it looks today:

After 2

After

Todays workload consisted mostly of setting up a proper development environment, such as installing django, postgresql and django_openidconsumer and writing a proper business plan. Tomorrow I will focus more on pure development.

And for all of you who cares: as my OS I use Ubuntu 8.10, Geany as my editor and I run Ubuntu with compiz on normal, just to make up for my now, slow machine (1st gen Dell XPS M1330).

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Yesterday I gave cardiopulmonary resuscitation to Sannas iPod.
After several blows, bends and hits, it’s little hard drive started spinning again! Hooray 🙂 !
Now it looks a little weird, but it works as expected. Before yesterday, it didn’t work at all.

Today I tried ashtanga yoga for my second time.
I enjoyed it very much, and I’m already feeling that it would be too little to only practice it once a week.

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File sharing is a hot subject these days, and I find it really interesting.

I’m making some research on it right now with this survey, please participate if you have a minute (it’s only 10 questions and it’s completely anonymous) over! The result will be published on this site under a CC license.

Here is the survey: 1 minute music file sharing survey.

Thank you for participating!

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A week ago our web host ONE.COM had problems with their MySQL database.
During that time (more or less a day) our site was inaccessible. Quickly I made a database backup, just in case.
We contacted their support, who confirmed the problem and promised us that it should be solved in a day or two, thay said that we should not need to worry about making a database backup. And later during the day, it was fixed.

The day after I went to my blog to write a post, due to my challenge.
But, I couldn’t log in. WordPress stressed that I sent dual headers, so it couldn’t log me in.
Well. Let’s see here.
I could log in the day before yesterday, but not today.
Hmm…

To me it was obvious. Something had happened to the database during the time it was inaccessible.
So I contacted One.com‘s support. Needless to say, they wasn’t much of a help. After 5 days of back and forth, ping-pong they wrote “..you could always reinstall the whole system”.

So now I’ve switched to our Dreamhost account. The site will probably be a little slower for swedish visitors (it’s located in the US), but this is a temporary fix until I’ve gotten myself a decent web host (Dreamhost is quite ok, though).

However, the challenge continues!