http://parand.com/say Parand Tony Darugar: A Cruel and Petty Dictator Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:36:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OSQA is a python/django based StackOverflow clone with a lot of nice capabilities. You might've seen me mention it on twitter. Hernâni and Rick were tremendously helpful on IRC to help get past some of the things not covered in the installation documentation. Here are my notes on how to get ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/07/24/installing-osqa-on-os-x-and-linux/ I don't know why but I'm seriously in love with this drawing from the six year old; it seems to have a real style. Better than anything I could draw, methinks. http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/07/23/art/ Most of the examples I found for python-oauth2 show how to use the library to request and approve tokens, but not how to use the access token to access a protected resource (ie. how to actually make a call to the service you're trying to access). Here's an example: import oauth2 ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/06/13/using-python-oauth2-to-access-oauth-protected-resources/ AndBot, recently featured in Mashable, is about the best source for Android news and reviews out there. If you do anything Android you definitely need to check it out. To boot, its creator Courtney is a good buddy of mine, a fantastically smart and good guy. I had a good laugh ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/06/05/andbot-the-best-android-app-catalog/ The scenario: user Alice wants to allow SimpleService to access Twitter on her behalf. Before OAuth this would be done by having Alice give SimpleService her login credentials for Twitter. She would type in her Twitter username and password into SimpleService, and SimpleService would use those credentials to access Twitter on ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/05/17/understanding-oauth-an-overview/ Having managed to blow the 140A fuse in my Lexus RX 300 by hooking up the wrong battery (thanks Kragen!), I wrestled with how to replace it for quite a while. It's complicated and I didn't find any good explanations on the web, so I'm writing it up here: The 140A ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/04/27/how-to-replace-lexus-rx-300-140a-or-other-inline-fuse/ At first I thought the arguments justifying Apple's ban of non objective-c development by claiming that resulting apps would be lower quality were absolutely moronic (and hence the people making the arguments either blinded by religion or morons). After all, it's not like there isn't a review process already in ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/04/09/please-join-lets-ban-all-but-one-framework-for-web-development/ I'd tried to use Google Wave on several occasions as a tool for remote collaboration. All attempts had ended in various degrees of disaster, so I didn't have high hopes for this round. In fact we tried Google Docs, Zoho Docs, and even Etherpad as alternatives first, with Etherpad being ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/04/09/effective-remote-collaboration-with-wave-and-ichat/ Quote from Steve Jobs, via Miguel de Icaza: We have to let go of this notion that for [us] to win, [our purported competitor] has to lose. We have to embrace the notion that for [us] to win, [we] have to do a really good job. And if others are going ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/04/03/to-win-we-have-to-do-a-really-good-job/ Mr. Bray has joined the empire of no evil, the Android group no less, and has been writing useful things about Android and Nexus One. He also has deep roots in the world of scripting, has been an advocate, and has been fearless in his experiments with languages new fangled ... http://parand.com/say/index.php/2010/03/19/a-request-for-android-tim-bray-and-google/