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Went to see Magda, Gaiser and Richie Hawtin at the Red Bull Music Academy M_NUS @ BAM. It started at midnight, which is a more civilised time than the usual 3:00 we get here in Barcelona. Magda was very good, Gaiser was ok and Hawtin had his good moments. I think Hawtin now has the same problem as Sven Vaeth, he is just too popular and his productions and studio mix sessions are way better than his live sets. It is a pity, because I remember a lot of good parties with him a few years ago. The visuals were also especially good, I have to find out who created them. Also very minimal, abstract and like a good screensaver. It wasn’t a projection, but a enormous LED display wall with one part below the DJ desk. Very good times, can we have more of this please? 

I haven’t updated it for ages. To prepare for some small changes I moved it to google code. This also gives me subversion, which takes another bit of work of me. The sandbox on krass.com will still serve as a testing area.

I decided that it is about time to learn something new. For some reason I decided on python and django. It might have something to do with the google app engine and because fedora uses a lot of python. I made up a small project, which is easy to start, but can grow into something bigger later. At my day job I use mainly php, including the cakephp framework. One thing which I am always missing is a proper ORM. I used to do a lot of perl coding and we developed our own ORM, which was very similar to Class::DBI. So I am quite happy that django comes with a nice ORM. I also like the views and template language so far. The only thing a bit annoying is the url setup and the specifying the locations of the templates. It would be nice if there was a nice default. There might even be one and I haven’t found it yet.

I decided that it is about time to learn something new. For some reason I decided on python and django. It might have something to do with the google app engine and because fedora uses a lot of python. I made up a small project, which is easy to start, but can grow into something bigger later. At my day job I use mainly php, including the cakephp framework. One thing which I am always missing is a proper ORM. I used to do a lot of perl coding and we developed our own ORM, which was very similar to Class::DBI. So I am quite happy that django comes with a nice ORM. I also like the views and template language so far. The only thing a bit annoying is the url setup and the specifying the locations of the templates. It would be nice if there was a nice default. There might even be one and I haven’t found it yet.