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Python 3 for Absolute Beginners is here
jp.stacey 4 November 2009The book you've all been waiting for, when you've not been waiting for Mark Pilgrim's.
I'm ridiculously excited that the book I co-authored with Tim Hall, Python 3 For Absolute Beginners, has been published. Apress very kindly sent me some complimentary copies last week and I immediately took photos of it and posted them on Flickr.
I blogged about how glad I was to be asked to work alongside Tim on the project back in January, and said among other things:
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Website redevelopment hiatus
jp.stacey 1 November 2009I was nearly convinced it wasn't even possible for a while there.
The site redevelopment continues, but somewhat slower. Technology has been the main sticking point, and it hasn't been clear until today whether Drupal (plus the otherwise excellent Panels module) could support exactly what it was I wanted to do. It turns out that it is, but it's pretty difficult to work out exactly how to configure and build the necessary components.
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Playing with card sorting
jp.stacey 9 October 2009If something's worth doing it's worth doing in excessive and somewhat worrying depth.
If you want your website navigation to reflect the way that users might find your content, you obviously want it to serve their use cases and the terminology they're comfortable with. Ideally you'd do this by asking sample users to build your navigation for you, but in the absence of any willing volunteers one of the best things a site owner can do is card sorting.
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A UK solicitor recommendation
jp.stacey 6 October 2009If you want any conveyancing done, I can recommend Loosemores Solicitors. In fact, I just did.
There was a post a month and a bit ago on Signal to Noise, recommending a lawyer from personal experience, and it prompted me at the time to make a mental note to do the same. My wife and I have recently managed to buy our first house, and the solicitors were probably the best part of the experience, aside from actually moving in and falling in love with the place.
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Importing from Wordpress to Drupal
jp.stacey 28 September 2009The initial import from Wordpress was much easier than then having to run two blogs alongside each other for two weeks.
The first stage of building this site was to import the content from the previous site. Well, the first stage was actually to set the site up: to install Drupal and enable the relevant modules. At Torchbox we've got a custom install profile that does a lot of this for us, installing and configuring relevant modules and creating users and roles. The actual company profile does a lot more work than I needed, in fact, and I've had to pare it back a little so that I've got less to maintain and worry about.
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Migrating to Drupal
jp.stacey 27 September 2009Well, that sort of worked. What next?
I've just migrated my personal website to Drupal. By this I mean: I've just migrated my personal blog to Drupal. The rest of the website will have to wait for 404 reporting to roll in, and for me to build a new site structure around what I want to appear here.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20
jp.stacey 27 September 2009- @simonmhawkins your child has extra heads? #
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Yet more sponsors: Apress and Friends of ED confirm for OGN14 and 15
admin 18 September 2009Wherever they raffle books they will also, in the end, raffle men. This is not actually true.
Following last week's great news from the Guardian Open Platform about sponsoring the two remaining Oxford Geek Nights, there's more great news for the Oxford Geek community, as Apress and Friends of ED have also agreed to sponsor OGN14 and OGN15 with books a-plenty.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13
jp.stacey 13 September 2009- @hatmandu so THAT'S who's stealing all the bread #
- A child could do better than this, and DID http://bit.ly/CVYfY #hirstisacock (via @bengoldacre, @charltonbrooker) Read more
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Get reacquainted with Verity and Jeremy, your UX chums
jp.stacey 13 September 2009You might claim that neither of them actually exist, but then they said that about the Druplicon and I totally met him.As the Drupal 7 code freeze approaches, D7UX is gearing up for final rounds of testing: like much of Drupal's collaborative structure, this will be crowd-sourced. Get involved!
