Category Archives: Information and Technology

Day 4, Another Productive Morning

This morning, I hacked together another bare-bones django app that does the same thing as the evernote one I wrote on Monday, except it integrates with google docs, where most of our existing word studies are. And yes, I created yet another github repo to share the oauth process involved. Another nice thing about free …

September 28, 2011 – 11:01 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Stanford, Thanksgiving, Web Development | Comments (0)

Beginnings of LDT

This week was my orientation at Stanford’s School of Education. On Monday and Tuesday there was a workshop for my program (LDT) that introduced us to the “design thinking” process. Essentially it is a wildly collaborative and creative approach to problem-solving. I thought our facilitator gave a really nice graphical sketch of what design thinking …

September 22, 2011 – 11:27 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Information and Technology, Stanford, Updates | Tagged | Comments (0)

Django Documentation on Writing a Custom Backend

Edit: Today is a special day, because I forked my first github repo! +1 geek points. https://github.com/leehsueh/django-janrain ——————————- Another nerdy post which may be of some use to a random novice django developer like myself. Feel free to ignore unless you get a kick out of my programming frustrations. One of the reasons why I …

September 11, 2011 – 4:02 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Web Development | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Evaluating Lightroom 3 vs. Aperture 3

Today I spent pretty much the whole day trying to figure out whether I should use Adobe Lightroom 3 or Apple’s Aperture 3. Here’s what I want to ultimately accomplish: store my photos on an external drive be able to edit/retouch non-destructively select photos without being tethered to my external drive localized adjustments I downloaded …

August 21, 2011 – 7:31 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Leisure | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Setting Up the Macbook Air for Development

Reference for self: installing PostgreSQL (thanks to this forum thread for resolving the issue I was getting) install XCode (comes with SVN and Git integration) installing django first I tried to do this with svn, but the command failed…so I decided to install SVN from macports. It finally just finished in the time it took …

August 16, 2011 – 11:20 am | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Updates | Comments (0)

NYST, BibleDB –> Bible Tidbits

It’s been awhile hasn’t it? Thank God, two weekends ago the NYST was completed at Hillsborough church in NJ. This was the first time I’ve ever coordinated anything in church of this scale, so although it was a bit stressful, I learned a lot and feel blessed to have such reliable and diligent coworkers in …

June 8, 2011 – 12:27 am | By leehsueh | Posted in Reflection, Spiritual, Web Development | Comments (1)

Life with a CR-48

It’s been 1-2 months since I got the CR-48 (a prototype laptop/netbook that runs Google’s Chrome OS). How has it fit into my habits and workflow? When It Has Come in Handy Productivity on the BART; 100MB of free 3G data per month for 2 years is a pretty sweet deal. 100MB doesn’t seem like …

April 27, 2011 – 11:52 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Information and Technology, Leisure, Life, Web Development | Comments (0)