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Django admin awesomeness
on Oct 15, 2009Yes, I realize that this is now my third post not related to DVCSes since I said my next post would be about DVCSes. So sue me. I recently encountered an interesting requirement for the Django admin: we wanted people to normally only see (and be abl...
Sorry about the downtime
on Oct 14, 2009I just happened to check my Google analytics today and saw that my hits had dropped essentially to zero since October 8th. Turns out that my wsgi file was a little screwed up after my initial attempts to migrate my blog to django-mingus. I have, obvi...
Storing IP addresses as integers in Python
on Oct 7, 2009I just saw this very interesting (for a programmer) blog entry on Storing IP addresses as integers. As the article says, anyone who wants to store IP addresses in a database is generally going to do as a string. However if you're really concerned abo...
Building RESTful APIs with django-piston
on Sep 26, 2009Discovery Creative has a lot of web sites and apps out there. And quite a few of them need to send email in one form or another. Previously that has meant that every single one of those sites/apps needed to implement it's own mechanism for sending em...
Comments are go!
on Sep 18, 2009Just a quick note: this blog now has Disqus comments. Turns out it's insanely simple to implement, thanks to Arthur Koziel's awesome django-disqus app. Took me no more than five minutes during my lunch break to get everything to it's current state.
Blog has been migrated to the Rackspace Cloud
on Sep 17, 2009One of the reasons that I haven't been blogging lately is that I have a lot of planned changes for the blog. Most importantly, I've been planning on moving it to my Cloud Server on The Rackspace Cloud (née Mosso). I've finally taken care of that, an...