Jody Mickey

DISCLAIMER: This entry doesn’t have anything to do with web development at all, it’s just a rant.

The “Reply To All” button needs an idiot warning.  Moreso, the “Forward” button should be abolished.  The only thing I hate worse than getting forwards is getting forwards in my work support inbox.  The only thing I hate worse than getting forwards in my work support inbox is getting replies to forwards in my work support inbox.

Look folks, I don’t care about your seemingly funny joke, your political views, your religious views, or probably anything else with a subject line starting with “Fwd:”.  Before you go selecting your entire contact list, please consider who’s on that list.  If you fall victim to an email forward, please restrain yourself to the “Reply” button and do not tell us all that you don’t want to recieve emails any more.  I don’t either, but I especially don’t want to hear you whine about it.

Let me put this out there at the very start:  I am not a graphic designer.  I wish I had the eye for it, but I don’t.  I don’t really know the difference between the colors mustard and custard, but I can tell the difference between two distinct shades of gray.  So can Firefox, and Safari, and Opera isn’t bad at it either, but Internet Explorer is having some issues.

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Apache’s mod_rewrite is a beast.  The opening lines of documentation admits it before you even get started.  It’s very powerful, but sometimes hard to wrap your head around what’s going on.

Today I needed to dynamically point a request to a folder depending on what the %{SERVER_NAME} is. After reading a bit of documentation, I’ve found a slick little solution.

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In my first blog entry I said that this blog was all about my quest to learn python.  Well today I was thinking that if that were the case, I should have registered jodymickeysquesttolearnpythonandnothingelse.com  But I didn’t, and that would be silly.  So instead, I am going to make the python quest a project of the site, along with some other projects that may or may not ever come to be, and also some little entries for things like handy mysql queries, linux commands, and various other tidbits of information for when I can’t remember how to do something.

Sadly, this entry provides no useful information aside from telling you what’s going on, but at least I’m up to date for the next two years of required blog entires.

I want to learn the programming language Python.  I need a project, and for once I’d like to document my learning experience so I can look back later, and in case someone is bored enough to follow along.  My first idea was to do both in one swoop:  write some simple blogging code and document it all at the same time.  There is a bit of circular reference goign on in that scenario, and getting Python to run under mod_python was a bit troublesome.  Once I did get it running, I saw that most implementations use PSP (Python Server Pages) or frameworks like Django.  That’s all fine and dandy, but I was hoping to learn more core Python than building a site Ruby-On-Rails style with a framework targeted at getting sites up as quickly as possible.  I’m sure once I learn more, I’ll look at those frameworks with a humble eye and use what’s available to make things easy, but for now, I want to figure it out.

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