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ActionGear v1.0.4 with a New Website March 02, 2009

ActionGear v1.0.4 includes an update to the interface. There's a new bottom toolbar for filtering via search, conditions, or tags. Plus, a brand new website for Gear Square, LLC.

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Animation in NewsFire and LittleSnapper February 24, 2009

I use NewsFire daily to read my RSS feeds. I use LittleSnapper occasionally - whenever a website or app catches my eye. Both are great examples of how animation improves the UI.

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ActionGear, lightweight task management October 13, 2008

ActionGear is the first product of my new company, GearSquare. It's a menu-bar application for lightweight task management on the Mac.

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roll your own django authentication system February 27, 2008

Django comes with batteries included - the authenticated system is just another application provided by the framework. Use it and you'll have access to a lot of free code that's based off of it (like Django's famous automatic admin interface).

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django context processors February 24, 2008

Django context processing is a lightweight method to expose variables in your views to your all of your templates.

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django middleware February 10, 2008

Django Middleware is used when processing all requests and responses coming in and out of an application. With middleware, you can intercept a request, change it, or even deny it. Middleware is useful if you have some sort of repetition across your view functions.

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