[caption id=“attachment_963” align=“aligncenter” width=“279” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Here’s what happened this week: Coffee, a personal history I first got hooked on drinking coffee back in the Spring of 1994 while attending a Microbiology class at Pace University. Our class started way too early for me and our professor (can’t remember her name right now) was this tiny old lady […] A Pig, an Elephant and a Yellow Dog From the “Read a Book to a Childâ€?

[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“160” caption=“Pumpkin Black Bean Soup by neon.mamacita”][/caption] Last night I attended two short presentation by Leonard Richardson, author of the O’Reilly book RESTful Web Services and developer on Launchpad.net. Unfortunately it took me a while to find a parking spot near UNC’s Chapman Hall, so I missed 90% of the first one, titled “A Spotter’s Guide to RESTful Web Services”. Based on the number of questions that were asked at the end, it seemed to me that this is an area where there are way too many possible ways people can get lost attempting to implement it…

From the “Read a Book to a Child" department, I’d like to recommend two amazing books that will be a sure hit for any kid, even the one inside you! [caption id=“attachment_969” align=“alignleft” width=“216” caption=“Watch me throw the ball by Mo Willems”][/caption] “Watch Me Throw the Ball" An Elephant & Piggie Book by Mo Willems is a wonderful book! I simply love the way Mo Willems writes the dialogs between Gerald, the always cautious and pessimistic elephant and Piggie, an optimistic, lovable pig.

[caption id=“attachment_979” align=“alignleft” width=“240” caption=“Trader Joe’s”][/caption] I first got hooked on drinking coffee back in the Spring of 1994 while attending a Microbiology class at Pace University. Our class started way too early for me and our professor (can’t remember her name right now) was this tiny old lady who barely raised her voice over the decibel level that dogs can hear. The class and subject were very interesting and by the end of the semester I felt very confident about my laboratory skills (and developed a phobia about anything that was not coated with some type of anti bacterial product).

[caption id=“attachment_963” align=“alignleft” width=“279” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Here’s what happened this week: Quotes to brighten your day Kind of ironic how my post titled “Stop whining and improve your lifeâ€? attracted so much negativity in the comments area. From the “Useful Django Tipâ€? Department: Reset The Admin Password This comes straight from the Useful Django Tip department: How do you reset the admin password for a Django project when you’ve forgotten it?

[caption id=“attachment_950” align=“alignleft” width=“243” caption=“Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging”][/caption] What a great day to kick of the day! Just received my complimentary copy of the book “Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging" from Packt Publishing! From the book’s overview page: Develop Django applications quickly with fewer bugs through effective use of automated testing and debugging tools. Ensure your code is accurate and stable throughout development and production by using Django’s test framework.

[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“400” caption=“Spring signs by cuellar”][/caption] It has been a great Spring for Transifex.net, everyone’s favorite open source translation portal! Things felt a bit quiet since their latest release, but the Transifex guys were secretly working on some really nifty features!!! This Tuesday they lifted their shroud of secrecy to reveal to the world these yummy new features: Team Discussion Board: Each translation team now has a discussion board.

*Sometimes, contributing back to upstream open source projects is not as straight forward as one may think. “Helping downstream translations swim upstream” will be a new series of articles where I intend to explain the issues contributors may face when attempting to send translations back to upstream projects, and hopefully, devise a couple of possible solutions.* In the past few years we have seen an astonishing growth of companies that started using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) bits and pieces in their products.

This comes straight from the Useful Django Tip department: How do you reset the admin password for a Django project when you’ve forgotten it? Bruce Kroeze suggested using Django’s shell to resolve this common issue and one of the comments his post received nailed it: [omaciel@crutches souschef]$ python manage.py shell Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Mar 22 2010, 10:30:12) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“333” caption=“Cheer Up Honey Pie by Auntie P”][/caption] Kind of ironic how my post titled “Stop whining and improve your life" attracted so much negativity in the comments area. It became very clear to me, however, that most were just too eager to make assumptions about my intention or probably wanted to vent a bit. Those who know me personally or have followed my blog for a while know that I don’t live in a fantasy world (though sometimes Chapel Hill can feel that way) filled with unicorn and cotton candy clouds.