10 Items for February 2009
iPhone Notes
Logging and reviewing beers I drink.
Bronze Banana
A bronze banana in the sidewalk.
Incredibly useful SSH flag
Eric Holscher demonstrates the -t flag to SSH and how it can be used to set Python paths or the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable on remote machines. A pretty handy trick.
Tutorial — Django Solr v0.1 documentation
A tutorial on setting up Solr with Django using the django-solr-search project.
Git for the real world
"Now that we've been using git at Twitter for a couple of months, we've overcome several crippling problems and misunderstandings about how to use it properly. There are dozens of "intros" and "tutorials" to git online, but at some point you need to know more than just the basics of DVCS and the map to svn commands -- you need to know practical considerations of real-world usage. None of the intros or tutorials had this stuff, so I thought I'd share what we learned."
jQuery Sparklines
This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript.