DVD Pila! 3.0 New Features Sep 5, 2015

Here's a rundown of the new features in DVD Pila! 3.0. You know, the ones not inherited from migrating to Ruby on Rails.

DVD Pila! On Rails Sep 1, 2015

It has been quite a few months since I've done any work on DVD Pila!, and there has been an increasing number of little frustrations with the way things worked.

Ember Data and Has Many Oct 21, 2014

So I'm not quite sure how to solve my current problem with DVD Pila! 2.0. I've setup the "child"/"has many" and "belongs to" relationship in Ember Data, but the problem now is that on the main page I'm getting a list of DVD objects and when I click a link for a DVD it doesn't actually call the "/dvd/:dvd_id" like maybe it should.

CRUD in Flask Oct 20, 2014

One thing I'm starting to miss about Rails is the automagic of CRUD operations for model classes. Not that's it's a big deal to code up a few functions to respond to PUT, GET, POST, and DELETE. The way Rails does all that automatically is very nice.

Ember Data Child ID Oct 19, 2014

You can use a different attribute other than id to determine child objects with Ember Data if you configure it. In my case for DVD Pila! I needed to set things up like this:

Frustration with SQLAlchemy Oct 17, 2014

Started work on adding a second table to DVD Pila!, and so far so good. Adding the table to contain information about an episode/disc is easy enough, but I ran into a little confusion once I started modeling the second table in SQLAlchemy.

Ember.js and Searching Again Oct 16, 2014

Portfolio Site Up Oct 13, 2014

Just realized that it's been two days since I posted in this blog. I had a streak going of a few months there, but this weekend we had company over, actually two sets of company, and totally spaced posting something. Maybe I should change the format to only post something useful? Then I'd have to change the name of the blog I guess...

Empty Branch With Git Oct 10, 2014

So I wanted to setup a Github style scenario for my latest Android app's website. I love using Jekyll with Github Pages, and wanted to build a site using Jekyll to host myself. I first thought about creating a new repository for the website, but then I was all like "wait, how does Github do it?".

First App in Google Play Oct 9, 2014

Upcoming Complimentary Android App Oct 7, 2014

SQLAlchemy For The Easy Sep 28, 2014

Was offline for about 12 hours and did some more work on DVD Pila! converting the static psycopg2 statements to SQLAlchemy objects. Might go so far as to say that I'd wish I'd just used SQLAlchemy off the bat, but I think it was good to learn how to make PostgreSQL statments with psycopg2. It will probably come in handy sometime.

DVD Pila! Ideas Sep 23, 2014

Handbrake High Profile With Sound For The Web Sep 16, 2014

Better Pause/Play with Spacebar Sep 9, 2014

Ember.js Search and Key Binding Sep 7, 2014

A few weeks ago I made a quick change to DVD Pila! to allow the "space" key to play and pause a video. It took a little trial and error to get things working with the video view I created to setup the HTML5 video element.

Archiving DVDs with Handbrake Sep 2, 2014

Archiving DVDs with OGMrip Aug 26, 2014

Ember.js and REST Guide Posts Aug 25, 2014

Upcoming Ember.js and REST Guide Aug 20, 2014

MailChimp Templates Figured Out Aug 18, 2014

MailChimp Templates Aug 17, 2014

HTML Email Templates Aug 16, 2014

eBook Download Page Aug 15, 2014

MailChimp Webhooks Success Aug 14, 2014

MailChimp Webhooks Aug 13, 2014

More Responsiveness And eBooks Aug 12, 2014

Github Pages and MailChimp Aug 10, 2014

Back to Rails Development Aug 9, 2014

Piwik Installation and Jekyll Integration Aug 8, 2014

Lessons from the Pile Aug 7, 2014

Responsiveness Procrastination? Aug 6, 2014

Bugs Fixed Release Time Aug 5, 2014

More Bugs More Problems Aug 4, 2014

Third Times A Charm Aug 3, 2014

The 1.0 Release That Wasn't Aug 2, 2014

HTML5 Video Position Saving Aug 1, 2014

Search and Pagination Success! Jul 31, 2014

Pagination or Search Jul 29, 2014

Problems with Pagination and Ember Jul 22, 2014

Migrating Code and ConfigParser Jul 21, 2014

Github Page With Jekyll is Live! Jul 18, 2014

Jekyll Project Website on Github Jul 17, 2014

Ember Star Rating Jul 16, 2014

Ember Pagination Weeee Jul 15, 2014

Flask File Uploads Jul 14, 2014

Ember.js File Upload... Jul 13, 2014

Woke up early to work on DVD inventory web app, and have some new fields integrated into the Ember.js model. They are simple text fields, well one is a textarea, and didn't post any big problem. Except for the edit form is now quite large, but it's not the size of your form that matters.

Python and Duck Duck Go Jul 12, 2014

Did some late night work and tried to find an API for IMDB in order to gather more information on the DVDs I own. I guess they don't have an official API, and the only thing I found was a StackOverflow thread about using it through JSONP.

Finding Great Ember Snippets Jul 11, 2014

After this morning's hour of coding I was able to implement search. Well more of a filter really, but it amounts to the same thing. Yay for regex.

More Progress With Ember Data Jul 10, 2014

Today I was able to clean up my controller and router functions. I had a crap ton of console.log() calls to try and figure out what this is in any particular situation, and if I can call things like get('model') and get('store') on it.

Ember Data Break Through Jul 9, 2014

After poking through the source code for Ember Data and Ember to try and determine why there wasn't any data being sent in the HTTP POST, I've finally had a break through.

Ember.js Data With REST Server Jul 8, 2014

For whatever reason, maybe I'm just dense, I've been having a very hard time connecting Ember.js Data with a simple REST server written in Flask that queries one table in PostgreSQL.