http://truefalsemaybe.com tom longson's blog on software, design, and user experience Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:49:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's another design I did for Burning Man Earth's poster. Again, it's rough (can you spot the misspelling?). The idea with this poster is to draw the viewer in with tiny text, and as they get closer, they should see detail in the aerial photography. Having looked at this and ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/11/burning-man-earth-poster-concept-2/ My camp, Burning Man Earth is trying to design a poster to help us fundraise for 2009, and this is a concept I came up with yesterday. It's a bit rough, and I think I'm giving up on it because it's a bit too bold, and Rod Garrett (Burning Man's ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/11/burning-man-earth-poster-concept/ So you want to find out why your Pylons app is running slowly? Well most likely it has to do with your SQL queries, and the best way to see what's going on and how long each request is taking is to install Dozer (by benbangert of Pylons), and load ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/11/profiling-sql-in-pylons-with-dozer/ This is a stitched image from Burning Man Earth of Burning Man 2008. Unlike my last post, this one isn't straight down, as I wanted to create a dramatic view of the city, and is taken on a different day. At some point we'll have a timelapse from above. How ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/11/burning-man-aerial/ This is one preview from the many aerial shots of Burning Man from this year, 2008. More to come. This is the work of Jeffrey of Pict'Earth. The Burning Man Org also contributed to help this project happen. It is part of the Burning Man Earth project (not associated with Google). http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/11/burning-man-aerial-preview/ From http://abstrusegoose.com/73. http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/11/nonexistence/ At the most basic level, a graph can communicate key information, like a company's P&L, the median price of a house, or daily average rainfall for a county over a year, but when used effectively, a graph can tell a story. Much like the rings on a tree can tell you ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/10/graphing-stories/ This is a quickstart guide for installing the OSX Flex SDK on your Mac. I adapted this from a video tutorial at learnhub. If you prefer to watch videos, go check it out. This is just a more straight forward guide to getting you up and running. 1. Download the SDK ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/10/osx-flex-3-sdk-installation/ --- Update: This is only true for Python before version 2.5. Otherwise, ternary operators are perfectly valid. Thank you Janzert / Danmc for jumping on top of my post and correcting me. See the comments for their examples and why not to do type(foo) == type(42) (spoiler: ducks don't like typing) --- No ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/09/no-ternary-operator-in-python/ Migrations are useful for emerging projects because they allow developers to evolve their models, and incrementally define schema change scripts so that old database records can be upgraded and downgraded easily. When I started using Pylons, I set up a tinderbox to allow a 2nd copy to live for our team ... http://truefalsemaybe.com/2008/09/sqlalchemy-migrations/