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1. Modeling Family Relations

   June 26 2008

   Humans are really complicated beings. Relations between humans are even more complicated...

   A while ago I've written an article about my small genealogy project. After quite fast implementation of data gathering tools (thanks to django admin panel) I got a little stuck with trying to visualize family tree.

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   written by Bartek Szopka about

   • dev,
   • django,
   • genealogy,
   • life
   • and everything.

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2. Genealogy in the Time of Web 2.0

   May 16 2008

   In every family there is such a time when someone starts to looking into family roots. It seems that it's that time for my family, as my father created lots of paper sheets with quite random pack of names and lines joining them.

   He asked:

   Bartek, maybe you will write some app to organize this thing, keep it all together? In few months I'll forget who is who on this papers.

   What could I answer?

   Yeay! Why not! Seems like fun.

   But, as once I was told that good programmer is a lazy programmer. So as a lazy programmer I started with googling some genealogy software and on-line family trees :)

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   written by Bartek Szopka about

   • dev,
   • django,
   • genealogy,
   • life
   • and everything.

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3. Showing Up

   May 12 2008

   That was a busy weekend. It all started with a little inscape play with the blog's logo...

   When it came to the logo I thought it would be nice to get a cool .com domain for this site but of course such names as bodybuilding.com or even bodybuildingblog.com where already registered. After hours of meditations and throwing far away thoughts like bodybuildinggeek.com I finally came to itsabodybuildingblog.com.

   Then I added some basic layout... and basic layout quickly turned into typography fun and positioning magic. After another hours of sitting inside styles.css, after being called stupid and maniac by my fiancée for few times I was kinda satisfied with what I see on my screen.

   It's not surprising that whole satisfaction just burned out when I launched IE6... Another hour or two of debugging and fixing and ...

   Voilà!

   I guess I'm not ashamed any more to show this babe to the world.

   written by Bartek Szopka about

   • blog,
   • life,
   • making-of
   • and everything.

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