That you had 9 months notice and you're only telling me now? ;)
Seriously: I've met a minuscule number of people that can produce genuinely useful stuff when really working more than 8 hours in a stretch. I've met several orders of magnitude more people who think they can. I'm happy existing outside of both groups, and working with similar modest souls.
Also: I'd suggest getting up earlier and finishing at 4.
I had at least 3 'postgres can do that?!' quickly followed by 'and I can do it with Django!?' when reading that. Brilliantly informative. Worth it just for the filtering on hstores - thank you!
My Yorkshire village has a playground. They installed CCTV last month. More people complain about the main road changing from a 40mph to 30mph. I don't care if the 'they' is government or centralised or whatever. The numbness to surveillance unsettles me greatly.
Looks great! I'd been bemoaning the lack of local sweet shops with family over the weekend and then clicked through to find you're only a few miles away! (I'm in North Leeds)
A couple of thoughts on the site:
- I'd rather see how many pink shrimps, or fried eggs I'm getting, rather than '20g'. Even if it's just approximate.
- A more 'see through' bag would be good. I realise I could click to see the contents, but I kept getting carried away and adding too much.
- The £2.50 delivery was initially off putting, and then I realised you do local for £1 and larger orders for free.
Indeed! It was a pleasant surprise, to me at least. I didn't immediately associate a Py IDE with JS dev (I'm a relative late comer to Django and still don't instinctively connect Python to webdev), but since they're my two languages of choice right now, it's ideal.
(and the sass syntax highlighting was also a 'ooh!', as was the automagical git support, as was JetBrains' helpful personal email reply to my filled in questionnaire, as was... well, you get the idea. I'm a happy customer!)
How about Knockout? So it's not a 'full' RIA JS framework, but in my mind, that's no bad thing:
http://knockoutjs.com/
It feels like a nice fit to MVC/MS stuff (there's certainly plenty of examples of this, and Steve Sanderson now works for MS). And it's easy to bind whatever UI you want to your view models.
Personally I now use KO for even the smallest of JS/HTML 'apps'. It's lovely :)
I still get milk and eggs (and sometimes some pretty bad knock-off Irn Bru) from ours. We're in the semi-countryside just outside of Leeds, and it's not at all unusual around here. Wonderful service!
Thoroughly impressed. I didn't expect it to be so interactive! Lots of fun to be had with reflective surfaces and 'hiding' the light underneath a pyramid.
(using Webkit r83831 on 2009 13" MBP, works a treat!)