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pyroman

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Co-Founder of http://ivylees.com

Blog: http://codespatter.com

Portfolio: http://gregallard.com

Contact: greg at ivylees

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pyroman··on How to Display Realtime Traffic Analytics
I left that out of the post because I didn't change it from what Apache was installed with on my debian box. It looks like this.

#

# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with

# a CustomLog directive (see below).

# If you are behind a reverse proxy, you might want to change %h into %{X-Forwarded-For}i

# LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer

LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

Format reference: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_log_config.html#for...

pyroman··on Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack
I was using haystack with whoosh and running into the same problem. I was waiting for some updates on that, but I think I'll check this out first. Thanks for sharing the code.
pyroman··on Python Projects in Users’ Home Directories with wsgi
I tried doing it that way first, but the wsgi directives aren't allowed in an .htaccess file. It would have been much better to have a user place a few lines in their .htaccess file for python projects, but I didn't find a way of doing that.
pyroman··on Why you should make it easy for users to quit your product
I just went through the whole xbox live cancel thing too. No place on the site or in the console to quit. Tech support e-mail would always say call them. The person on the phone was able to take care of everything and even mentioned billing.microsoft.com would allow you to stop the auto renew. I didn't try that out since I was already on the phone. I don't know why the e-mail support responses left that out. If that site works for someone, it would be nice to know.
pyroman··on Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?
This wiki was created to list what tools are used by which startups. http://startuptools.pbworks.com/
pyroman··on Ask HN: Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration
It's good that you have a video showing the features, but it could use some more audio. The silent parts need a voiceover. It looks like there is enough stuff to talk about to fill up the whole time.
pyroman··on Ask YC: Cheap alternatives to Aeron chairs?
In addition to this question it would be good to know where to go to try out all of these chairs that are mentioned. Most places I've been only have the cheap ones out for trial.
pyroman··on Ask HN: Review a webpage to Kindle conversion app
It would be nice to know more about how the website will be sent to my kindle before giving out my kindle email address.
pyroman··on NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome
Interesting. I'll have to look into that. Thanks.
pyroman··on NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome
Are you using nginx for static files and proxying apache for python? I recently set something like that up and posted about it to spread the word. http://codespatter.com/2009/04/23/how-to-speed-up-your-djang...
pyroman··on Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service.
Are you saving the urls after someone requests one to be lengthened? It could act as a backup if one of the shorteners went down. Maybe one of the firefox extension developers that expand urls could use your saved urls in that case.
pyroman··on Should hackers pay attention to Silicon Valley?
It's important to pay attention to what other hackers are doing in your area. One of the awesome things about silicon valley is all of the people from the startups hang out there, but there are hackers everywhere and there can be meetups anywhere.

Once I started paying attention to what was going on in Orlando I met a lot of smart people. We're having a barcamp tomorrow too. http://www.barcamporlando.org/

There are other great things about silicon valley, but it's not the only place with hackers.

pyroman··on Is A Nomadic Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place?
That is something that I would probably buy. I've been thinking about living on a boat for about a year now and I haven't really done any research. I'm sure there would be tons of information you could provide that would help.
pyroman··on Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups
I liked the video that you have after signing up. That should be easier to find for people that haven't signed up yet.
pyroman··on Ask HN: Any upcoming web conferences worth attending?
I would also recommend sxsw. I haven't been before, but I'll be there this year. The talks look interesting. http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels
pyroman··on Ask HN: Do You Twitter?
http://twitter.com/greg_allard I mostly do @ replies, links to my blog posts, or what beer I'm drinking (microbrews, nothing boring)
pyroman··on How Not To Sort By Average Rating
I noticed that too. The numbers in the picture do support his point though. 209/259 = 80.7% is listed higher than 118/143 = 82.5%
pyroman··on Posterous (YC S08) launches universal bookmarklet
Ok. I didn't see the Unsafe Reload option. That works.
pyroman··on Posterous (YC S08) launches universal bookmarklet
It seems to be making NoScript go nuts. Delicious bookmarking still works, but it obviously doesn't need to get content from the page. I tried adding things to the whitelist but haven't gotten it to work yet. Any ideas?
pyroman··on Gmail Tasks: Paper vs. iPhone
I've been looking for a simple task app that I can use on my iphone and have in my google homepage. I'll be trying this out.
pyroman··on On code quality: rewrite once
I've noticed that python seems to stay cleaner than php would, but I'm not sure if it's the framework that's keeping things neat or the fact that php made it easier for the code to get dirty. It's also easy clean up a few parts of python without effecting too much where php might need a rewrite.
pyroman··on Building a Web App in 1 Hour For Promotional Purposes (IsHilarySwankHot.com)
I created a link that says "Share this on Twitter" instead of doing an image. I don't know who made that one and I didn't see any others that I like.

I'll see if many people use that.

pyroman··on Building a Web App in 1 Hour For Promotional Purposes (IsHilarySwankHot.com)
It's only been up for 3 days and it hasn't gotten much traffic. I haven't made back the cost of the domain yet. Each click on those ads is a good amount though so I can see breaking even soon.
pyroman··on Building a Web App in 1 Hour For Promotional Purposes (IsHilarySwankHot.com)
I like quick projects like that. I put together http://isthemarketdown.com in 3 hours, but I haven't spent much time promoting it.

The twit this button is a good idea.

pyroman··on The Printer that Prints (60% of) Itself
60% is pretty good, but even if it was up to 100% it would still have this problem

"the RepRap can replicate the majority of its components at low cost but needs human intervention to assemble them into a working device"

But that's not that big of a problem on earth

pyroman··on Clever table design
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.
pyroman··on College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts
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.

pyroman··on College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts
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?

pyroman··on College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts
> 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.

pyroman··on Ask YC: Does music help programmer concentrate better?
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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