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My First Contribution to Django

Comments   4   Date Arrow  December 10, 2008 at 3:50pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Hola!

about 2 weeks ago I created a multilingual version slugify for django! You can find the code here.

What is slugify? It the function that gets us from “This is my post” to “this-is-my-post” and its used widely on the web to make human friendly URLs, where the data are not accessed by their […]

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GMail Themes

Comments   0   Date Arrow  November 21, 2008 at 2:40pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Google added themes to GMail! You can access it under the tab “Themes” in the settings.

(It might not be enabled yet for some users)

Very nice!

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Symfony, Ruby on Rails and Django : The unsual review (Part 2)

Comments   4   Date Arrow  November 13, 2008 at 10:40pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

[This is the second part of this post]

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Symfony, Ruby on Rails and Django : The unsual review (Part 1)

Comments   4   Date Arrow  November 1, 2008 at 10:57pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

I spent the last week trying out web frameworks. I thought it was time to move on from my own hacked PHP scripts to something more elaborate. The first framework I was really eager to checkout was ofcourse the under every stone Ruby on Rails! The main reason was all the talks about it, along […]

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The Google When it All Started

Comments   0   Date Arrow  September 26, 2008 at 1:39pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

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Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider

Comments   3   Date Arrow  September 13, 2008 at 12:48pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

It seems that hackers started to attack the everywhere-in-the-news-collider! According to this article they successfully managed to crack the cmsmon.cern.ch web site!

The headline of the site sponsored : “GST: Greek Security Team”, which advertises that the group of crackers is from Greece. I wonder if I know any of them …

From what […]

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Picasa with Facial Recognition

Comments   3   Date Arrow  September 2, 2008 at 5:51pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

According to this post at CNET Google has implemented facial recognition in to the latest version of their photo management software Picasa!

Finally! I always loved to be able to search photos by people, but tagging all of your photos can bring you close to madness!

p.s. Only wait until they use this technology on the […]

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NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies

Comments   0   Date Arrow  February 6, 2008 at 1:05am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

According to this press release, nVidia will acquire Ageia Technologies. Yeap! The well known physics software and hardware vendor. In my mind this means that the future nVidia based accelerators will support physics acceleration, too. It will basically mean the death of the PhysX processor, since the GPU can do that easily with no […]

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Farewell Anthony

Comments   1   Date Arrow  January 25, 2008 at 10:42am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Its been a week since my dear friend Anthony was forced out of this world by that cursed disease. Nothing is the same. The void is just to big to ever be filled.

Anthony was the kind of person that you meet only once. I can still remember the first time I meet him, the […]

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My Βabbler Coldfusion

Comments   2   Date Arrow  September 28, 2007 at 8:31am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

If you where a compiler and you would like to express yourself about an index that was mistakenly out of bounds what would you say?

I would say something like this : - “Line 342 : Index out of bounds”

Read on to find out what Coldfusion would say!!!

In function ListGetAt(list, index [, delimiters]), the value […]

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