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I’m sad

Victor — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:33:29 +0000

Do you see the title? Oh my God, that’s like so straight to the point! Well, that’s the only point about it and the following rows won’t hold much information about it so don’t get over excited!

First of all, I finished college. The project I was talking about in my last post got a 10 (that’s a B in the American grading system). The product itself was worth 12 (A) but, quite honestly, the examination was pretty cruel and I failed to answer the following questions:

What is the difference between a normalized and denormalized table in a database? (I should have known the answer to this question but hey.. no regrets, right?)
How can you store a PHP object inside a session? (I just couldn’t focus on giving an appropriate answer and was way too vague in the answer)
Why didn’t I use JSON in order to send and receive the AJAX information? (I think the answer “I was just not very familiar with JSON and did not have enough time to go more into depth with it” was not really alright)

So, let’s put it this way: I am now a multimedia designer (literally, not just skillfully) and I’ll be finishing my bachelor in Web Development sometime next Winter. God damn, that seems so far away! Here’s a video I made out of 2 videos shot by one of my classmates and one of my teachers:

Those being sa(i)d, my life really revolves between going to work, watching the last 2 seasons of Seinfeld and any individual projects. Oh, and learning the regular expressions! I always bump into them so I guess now would be a good time to actually learn them!

On the other hand, the last week has been very entertaining from a metallic point of view as I got the chance to watch Soulfly, Master and Six Feet Under in 2 live performances, in Århus. Yeah, they were expensive but one should never refrain from actions which definitely gives him pleasures unless those pleasures are illegal but that’s a completely different aspect…

I’ll be coming home on the 22nd of July and I do not know what to expect. From any point of view. What’s even funnier is that I still haven’t bought a return ticket but I guess I’ll do it as soon as I get home though. Anyway, Scandinavian Airliens for the wins! I am so sick and tired of having a flight made out of 2 segments!

Can it get any worse? Yes it can! Bring it on, you mofo!

Comparing string with integer in Django’s template

Victor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:12:13 +0000

As you can’t change the type of variable straight when working inside a Django template and you can only do it to the variables going TO the template, I found a stupid work around it.

Say you have variable a = ‘2′ and b = 2 and you want to compare them. The way I did it was adding the same value to both variables, thus changing the string variable into an integer by adding a filter. Might not be the best solution in the world but it worked.

Not working:
{% ifequal a b %}
HTML stuff 'round here
{% endifequal%}

Working:
{% ifequal a|add:"0" b|add:"0" %}
HTML stuff 'round here
{% endifequal %}

It does look a little bit silly but it might do the trick if you’re too lazy to change your views/models.

[RO] Disclaimer referitor la e-mailuri

Victor — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:06:43 +0000

Salutare!

Datorită faptului că toți cei din lista mea de Yahoo! Messenger au primit un e-mail de la mine ce conținea un link și subiectul “Buna! Ce-i cu pozele astea? :-O” și am primit și reply-uri, am decis să scriu acest articol și să explic cum stă situația:

Am primit un e-mail la fel ca și voi ceilalți. Mi-am dat seama instant că expeditorul nu avea nici o treabă cu e-mailul primit și am recunoscut un tip de virus (asemănător spam-ului zilnic pe care îl primesc de la câțiva indivizi din lista de messenger). Având în vedere faptul că eram conectat la rețeaua Yahoo! cu ajutorul Trillian-ului și că folosesc un browser bunicel din punct de vedere al securității (Firefox), am considerat că ar fi interesant să dau click pe acel link, încercând să aflu metoda folosită de spammeri pentru a trimite e-mailurile respective.

Dând click pe link, Firefox-ul mi-a spus că pentru a vizualiza pagina respectivă, era nevoie de instalarea unui plugin pe care l-am refuzat. În seara aceea, am plecat către Constanța iar în seara următoare, verificându-mi contul de e-mail, am observat o sumedenie de reply-uri de la persoane aflate în lista mea de contacte care mă întrebau ce este cu e-mailul respectiv.

Recunosc că greșeala mea a fost curiozitatea de a accesa acel link și naivitatea de a crede că Firefox-ul își face datoria în a mă proteja. Îmi cer scuze pentru deranjul produs de acele e-mailuri și vă rog, nu le accesați !!!

În speranța că veți înțelege,
Victor

Web Design and Development useful links

Victor — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:07:42 +0000

I’ve been stuck with this flu for quite some time now and the fever just won’t let me go. I guess I’m just too lovely hee hee.

So, anyway, I’ve decided to publish my list of bookmarks. These have helped me hundreds of times and most of them are worth at least one glance. Don’t forget that from time to time, I also post some interesting links on my twitter account so, go ahead and follow me

CSS Related

Design Related (useful materials)

Typography and other design related bookmarks

Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Wordpress and so on…

I hope you’ll find something useful among these links. Some of them are real gold!

Compilation of ASCII characters used by Emo kids

Victor — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:14:29 +0000

I just thought it’s interesting to see. I’ve been seeing them for quite some time now and I have no clue how the hell they find them. Hope they won’t reach this blog though and collect these:

★ • ¨ ‘ ° º
๑ ۩ ۞ ۩ ๑ ▄ █ ▄ █ ▄ ஐ ● → ♥└─►° ♥ ™ °
♥ ß α я ĭ ε Κ η
░ c г α z у в α у
Lٱ√ٱ∂
ιlιllιlι ツ ♪
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒღ☺

Useless post, I know but yeah, that’s what I thought: HOLY SHIT!

New iMDB tweak

Victor — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:43:39 +0000

After launching the italian version, the internet movie database has provided us with another tweak, creating a better visual experience for its users on the page relevant for each actor. Therefore, the movies that particular actor has worked upon are displayed in a more appealing manner: alternate row colors and movie posters. Here’s an example for Leonardo di Caprio’s page:
Don’t forget you can also check the movies that I have watched and rated by clicking here.

What if the Sims turned into a horror movie?

Victor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:33:00 +0000

I don’t usually just embed videos for you guys to see but this time I’ll make an exception. It’s such an awesome piece of work from CollegeHumor that it deserves all the appreciation.