It took me a while to figure out how to change from the default, example.com. Maybe it should have been obvious, but I was looking in all the wrong places and every search I did wouldn’t come up with an answer. As I discovered, it isn’t a setting in the settings.py file. It’s something that [...]

Browsing other peoples’ code is a great way to learn new things about a language or framework. I never made it to the Django docs about Contexts, but the Pinax developers apparently did and I got a chance to learn this from them. This is a few sections of their code and how they use [...]

I thought about building one on my own when watching the video, but I haven't even built anything simple before. Maybe I need the challenge to get me interested.

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I've been looking around at the school's interface and at the Windows Live account area and I haven't found anything yet. If https://owa.msoutlookonline.net/Login.aspx is the OWA you are talking about, then I can't log in to that.

I remember someone saying that forwarding was turned off so that people would have to use the web interface. I don't know why they would even make than an option.

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Also, a lot of universities have their application process online and require an e-mail address to apply. So the information is already available and that would eliminate the step of requiring the student to set up forwarding manually.

If it's already a method of contact between you and the university, why add another place to look by creating a separate inbox?

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> They considered offering from both Google and Microsoft, but eventually decided against both in lieu of the new forwarding option.

UCF recently had to make this decision and went with Microsoft. And now our students do not have an option of forwarding those messages to an address of their choice.

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I've been using python a lot recently and I like they way they work with their errors. Instead of suppressing it, you are catching it and then you have a chance to do some logic in that case. I guess php implemented a way of doing it that way also, but no one uses it.

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I agree that instrumental progressive metal is awesome for programming. I've also found classical music to work, but I enjoy metal a bit more.

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I’ve been curious to learn more about screen scraping for some time. And then I heard about a python script that is great for parsing html. Since I’ve also been learning python, I thought now was the perfect time to explore some scraping. In the past I had some trouble with using php to parse the [...]

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OLD and NEW are used on UPDATE triggers. OLD.col_names will access the data that is in the row of the database before the UPDATE query runs and NEW.col_names will access the data that the row will be updated to.

IF OLD.first_name != NEW.first_name

That checks if the UPDATE query is changing the information for first_name.

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We've opened up parts of the site so that you don't have to be logged in to view it. Some links will need to be added to the front page, but maybe this will satisfy your curiosity for now. http://ivylees.com/associations/IvyLees

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I have put together a small media center pc with spare parts I had laying around and let me just say this.. i love it. I use it daily now and don’t know how I managed without it. It was all fine and dandy I even bought it a proper htpc case. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108058) which is [...]

I've seen a few sites mention it and I would like to check that out also. I was wondering how to pronounce that word for a while. I should have just looked it and I would know it's pronounced "engine x". I subscribed to your feed so that I'll know if you do post about it.

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That is a really good article and I'll be following along when I get around to using a different server for static files.

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I didn't mention anything about a mail server in this post. I found this page that can set up forwarders easily: http://eightpence.com/howto-setup-mail-forwardi...

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Both Debian and Ubuntu make it really simple to get a server up and running. I was trying a few different Machine Images on Amazon and I found myself repeating a lot of things so I wanted to put them here for reference for those who might find it useful. With a fresh image, the first [...]

I ran into some trouble with python2.4 and the django code I was using. The previous server had 2.5 and I didn’t notice any problems, so I tried upgrading to 2.5 and changing which version of python Debian uses as default (this was on Debian Etch). I was having some difficulty getting a few of [...]

Some of the recommendations were on target, but there were about half that were far off. I like being able to browse through the similar tracks and it's cool that it keeps the history of them so you can go back.

Do any of the music recommendation places have an api? I've been thinking about creating a site that recommends music for groups of people that might have different tastes in music. Not many of my friends like the same stuff, but I know there is some overlap there.

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