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I don't intend to normally talk about politics here, just tech stuff, but I'm making an exception here. I've been watching news about Occupy Wall Street and have a tab permanently open on twitter.com watching #occupywallstreet and #occupywallst tagged tweets.

I think this is a great thing and very important. It's something that I expected would come eventually, but certainly did not expect it to happen now. Many people are complaining that it's pointless because no one has an actual solution, that people who support Occupy Wall Street just want everything given to them ...

I've finally made the switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL. This is something that I've been meaning to do for awhile, but MySQL did what I needed, I was using it at work and so knowing more about it was useful, and I was just used to it and comfortable with it. I've recently changed jobs and the new place uses postgres. Since I've also been working with Django and the Django guys also recommend postgres, now seemed like a good time to switch.

One thing that always comes up when discussing mysql and postgres is a ...

While trying to come up with my next project it just really hit me that I really enjoy doing more back end, library type work. My two most recent projects, both of which I really enjoyed working on, were an OAuth library and an app for Django which has no UI elements.

Most of my applications that do have a UI get a minimal one. My Android XMPP chat client just has white text on a black background and ListViews, this website's layout and colors are simple and pretty terrible, and my other Android apps have really simple, unimpressive ...

While I've been working on changing the site around I've gotten to learn a few more things about Django. The biggest change is behind the scenes in the form of a taxonomy app. The first page to use this is the projects page and it can easily be used for any other similar pages, tagging, or any other categorization I might need.

I got to work with Django's contenttypes framework, which provides some really useful features. With the contenttypes framework you can create generic relations, which behave like a foreign key (sort of... it's more difficult ...

As you can see, if you've visited before, the redesign has made progress. The nav is now on the upper right and the list of projects are on their own page (which needs some work to look nicer). It's very subtle, but the nav links do a cool little color change deal when you hover over them now (It's not much, but my UI skills are sorely lacking). I may make that stand out a bit more. I also fixed some font-family nonsense that caused some really dumb looking fonts to be used with Internet Explorer.

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