Psychic Origami

I've posted details of the next £5app meet to upcoming. It will be (as tradition dictates) the 2nd Tuesday of the Month (April 8th) at Brunswick square. Ian has a few more details. I'll be posting more details on the £5app site later.

This will most likely be the last …

After feeling somewhat intimidated by the blank canvas I made a start on my portrait for MASS on Sunday. Going fairly well so far:

The sketch you can see if my very rough idea of what I'm aiming for, but is very much a guideline and the final version will …

Finally started my piece for MASS today:

Picked up the canvas yesterday and realised quite how much work there is to do. Glad I've only agreed to paint one portrait, though if things go well I might just have time to do another. Think this is basically the largest piece …

Tomorrow Ian and I are holding our first Python Meet in Brighton. It's all a bit low-key and we'll actually be sharing the space with The Farm, but hopefully it'll be a nice way to start kick starting a bit more of an active Python community down here in Brighton …

Carrying on from Girl with an Altair 8800 here's another vaguely Diamond Age inspired piece. I'm quite enjoying doing paintings with these themes so there might well be a few more to come - probably tracking the evolution of the modern computer.

NB. That's a "mouse army" at her feet.

This is sort of a continuation of my little SQLObject performance guide. So it might be worth reading that too, if you are after hints about speeding up SQLObject. Anyway, on with the show...

It's possible to create raw (database agnostic) sql queries with SQLObject. This can be really handy …

Another update for chrss. No major changes to the chess part itself, but I've just added a blog so I've got a dedicated place to discuss chrss.

This marks the start of me adding some actual "content" to chrss. Up until now chrss (as a site) has basically consisted of …

Another update to chrss.

• tweaked front page layout to make it clearer and show different options depending on if you are logged in or not
• addition of a help section (with backend CMS for myself to add content to it).

At the moment the help section is not directly linked …

Well I just finished fixing a bug in chrss and it's made me very glad that I've been using automated tests.

The bug looked like it might be very tricky to track down and I feared that it might get messy. In the end it proved to be a slight …

Last Saturday as part of the Brighton Digital Festival Ian and I held the £5app day at the offices of Sensible Development.

Ian has a fairly in-depth write-up on his blog of the whole day.

I shall be providing a brief summary of "Developing your £5 app". Neil and I …