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Daily Digest for Thursday, Sep 8, 2011

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Steve Ivy

So, now I just have to learn nginx, unicorn, and chef. #everybodystopmoving #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

installing chef. @kantrn convinced me that it was time.

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Steve Ivy

@bitprophet Peter from OSU is wanting to connect - @pkrenesky

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Steve Ivy

Heading upstairs to watch dr who, eureka, learn chef, and pamper my inner introvert. #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

@jeraldrich Wish they’d said “cool, I’ll signup”! :P nice to hear though.

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Steve Ivy

looping back around to @ericholscher’s notes and blog posts about setting up a django server with chef

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Steve Ivy

learned more about chef @ #djangocon, got far enough to get into the weeds and give up for the night. thx @kastner for help anyway!

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Steve Ivy

hey Open Web social types: I’m looking for examples of Activity Streams consumers for a talk this morning. Little help?

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Steve Ivy

@jayfresh @richmarr @monkchips what did you have in mind?

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Steve Ivy

signed up for another lightning talk, this time on activity streams in django #DjangoCon

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Steve Ivy

@monkchips @thinguy That is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time! Thanks!

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Steve Ivy

Mentally prepping for my second lightning talk of the conf, hoping to channel @anildash

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Steve Ivy

hey @seanmilo Great talk! Inspired! #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

RT @kcunning: Me and @steveivy - Part of the exclusive club of people who were not carried off stage by @freakboy3742 #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

@jwpeddle @ptone woo!

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Steve Ivy

having #djangocon tweets like a madman. (@anidash is my master)

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Steve Ivy

love @glyph’s interrobang ending! #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

@thinguy @monkchips No doubt. And the more you learn to respect your kids, the more *facepalm*s you end up doing.

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Steve Ivy

@kantrn Got kinda far last night adding packages to my run list, but failing to grok how to get started on my own cookbooks/recipes. #chef

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Steve Ivy

liking @pydaddy’s talk, but little new yet. Hm, formsets might be interesting…

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Steve Ivy

anyone #djangocon folks using Gargoyle? I’ve got a switch that mysteriously doesn’t work conditionally (only global or disabled).

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Steve Ivy

hey @ericholscher - do you have a chef recipe for installing supervisor? I can’t seem to find one…

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Steve Ivy

@ericholscher aaaand, of course I then find @kantrn’s: http://t.co/A2KX4sk

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Steve Ivy

@jayfresh @richmarr @monkchips ping me - steve at wallrazer com sometime

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Steve Ivy

@kantrn if i can find you @ lunch, can you ‘splain me how to use a third party cookbook (from github) in my chef-repo?

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Steve Ivy

Nerd con bingo: utilikilt spotted.

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Steve Ivy

hey @disqus folks, can one of you help me figure out why my gargoyle conditional switches aren’t working? #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

OH: I will do this demo since you guys can’t seem to operate your laptops. #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

Watching @idangazit next to me design the Django UX team page. Fascinating. #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

@zeeg – gargoyle switch is returning true if enabled, false if disabled, and false for any conditional. where to start looking?

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Steve Ivy

Slides for my Activity Streams lightning talk this morning http://t.co/CGP9Yl1 #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

first time I got up the courage to talk at a con. lightning talks are great for breaking in newbies. #djangocon

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Steve Ivy

@zeeg No, just username==foo and user is superuser.

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