The right tool for the job is sometimes not the right one afterall.
It amazes me sometimes that software religious fanaticism is still rampant in this day and age of “there is no right way to do something as long as it works”. I ran headlong into this today while twittering.
This site is running a development version of Django, and as such there are sometimes major changes to the codebase that you have to compensate for. One such change was the recommendation to move from Apache running mod_python to mod_wsgi. It was a relatively painless changeover, but I just couldn’t get the admin media files (the admin site has a library ...
Posted by maddox on 2009-09-01 : 0 comments
Canada Post not best liars
I ordered a book from Amazon recently. No biggie, everyone does it, and I do it on occasion as well.
Now when you order a book from Amazon in canada you get an Expresspost tracking number so that you know a estimated delivery date, and amazon knows that the package has indeed been delivered and not lost. Yesterday was the delivery date on the book and I was waiting at home for it. all day. No package came.
Imagine my surpise when I check on the canadapost site to see that delivery was attempted, and that a delivery notice card ...
Posted by on 2009-01-30 : 49 comments
