StartupIndex was launched tonight at StartupCampToronto. I’m really excited to see where this goes. We have lots of plans for the future, lots and lots of features and information. I’ll keep this blog updated when major updates are made. For now, check out StartupIndex and read Jevon’s post about StartupIndex on StartupNorth. Only a few [...]

Just a quick snippet, I call this code on a site I’m working on to handle some basic moderation. It finds the difference between the two instances, and returns a dictionary of the changes. The key in the dictionary is the field name, each value in the dictionary is a tuple containing the new and [...]

I have just recently started working with Django again, its been a while since I last used it. One thing I was trying to do was cache querysets, which doesn’t work. Before the recent merge of the queryset refactor branch into trunk, caching querysets appeared to work, in reality it didn’t. Now with the merge [...]

We just started a new Adwords campaign at Well.ca, we’re trying to build in some intelligence and simplify the management of the Adwords. I was looking over our campaign today and noticed a trademark error. See screenshot. Apparently, the word “Platinum” is trademarked.

I did a quick search on the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and found [...]

I’ve known for a bit that using the ‘IN’ condition for MySQL queries is much much slower then it should be. I didn’t realize how much will I was browsing the website Common Queries for MySQL and came across the section called The unbearable slowness of IN().
According to this page, using IN is two times [...]