Last night I was finally able to start a series of screencast about Drupal and all the things that interests me. I just finished uploading it to blip and also the Screencasts section on my blog is now open.

For a long time I've been planning to do this since creating a blog post is cumbersome with all the typing and code editing, so enjoy the 1st video stay tuned for more.

I'm going to attend WebGeekPH's 1st year anniversary, meet cool folks and some booze. WebGeekPH is a rapidly increasing community of Filipino web enthusiasts, it's a great place to learn stuff and also help others.

In our school, some of the websites are blocked like youtube.com. To get away with that, I use ssh to tunnel through my web host (webfaction) and forward all my request.

ssh -D 8000 marconijr@marconijr.com

Django has a very rich of modules for its template system and two of them are Context and Loader. You normally use these two to load the template and pass the variables for that template using context. In post I'm going to show you how to use them in sending emails instead of rendering templates.

It's been a very long time since the last time I have something to say and in between my blog has undergone a couple of changes. First, I needed to transfer my domain from a dumb registrar to a new one. Second, now that my domain has been transfered, I get to transfer its name servers to webfaction giving it enough memory, bandwidth and stable.

I was trying Django the other night and the tutorial from their site mentioned to set the absolute directory to all of my template files on a variable called TEMPLATE_DIRS which is inside the settings.py.

Its been almost a year since I switched from Linux to Mac as my development environment and the only time I get to use Linux is when deploying something on our server at work; which is pretty much boring because I'm just tunneling and interacting with the shell.

I've been playing around with git and github tonight for I really felt that I need to organize my projects a bit. A few minutes ago, I have two separate repository for pullite and the pullite prototype. I know It was not the right thing to do but I was in a hurry that time that I just needed a place for the project.

A while a go I just posted something about Pylons interactive web-based debugger and for some reason my post is gone! Although the cache of th teaser version on blognetworks from facebook is still there.

Err, I'm really really pissed off! I might re-create it but some other time, sheez! 

It's been a while and lately I've been playing again with Merb so I figured I'll post about DataMapper. DataMapper is an ORM for Ruby which most Merb users prefer because of its simplicity and neat features.

Before we can start playing with it, you can install it using the following command:

sudo gem install dm-core

Also, for the purpose of this tutorial we're going to install the sqlite database driver: