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Updates to the site, now with blueprint goodness

I pushed some updates to my puny little site, the most significant of which is that i now use the Blueprint CSS framework for layout, as it nicely includes everything i want: reset, columns, and a nice set of base styles. And it's small and fast to load. I wish there was the same thing but fluid: where it would adjust the column width to the browser's resolution. I've always been fairly opposed to fixed-width layouts, but i really wanted a nice, easy to use, cross-browser column layout thingy and i couldn't find a non-hacky, clean fluid one. I also put in a cleaner, text-only widget for my tweets. Nothing exciting, really.

Tags: english, geeky, web

by wiswaud on 27 July 2009 | 0 comments

A look at rackspacecloud.com vs AWS (updated)

Is slapping an API on top of a VPS hosting provider's systems enough to call it "Cloud Computing"??? I think not, but Rackspace thinks so. A look at rackspacecloud.com. I've been using Amazon Web Services for a while, for Akoha and now for a client. In particular, using EC2 ("cloud servers" - on-demand virtual servers, basically), with EBS (attached storage, a little like iSCSI drives), and some S3 usage (cloud object storage, for storing server images, scripts, and all sorts of files). But Rackspace, a great and huge more traditional hosting / colocation company, has recently gotten in the cloud server game with their rackspacecloud offering. But how does it compare to AWS?
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Tags: cloud, english, geeky, linux, web

by wiswaud on 16 July 2009 | 5 comments

django, you make things so easy

Adding RSS feeds was super easy, with Django's syndication framework in the contrib applications. I wanted to be able to have RSS feeds that would only follow entries tagged with something, so that you could only follow my entries written in english or that are about django. It turns out i got that done with a 7 line change.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, metablogging, python, web

by wiswaud on 15 April 2009 | 2 comments

PyCon 2009, day 2

This is day 2 of the conference (see also my notes on day 1). Another interesting day full of interesting talks, with a keynote by Guido, a few django talks and some more random things. You can definitely feel how django is just taking off, it's amazing. Last year there were roughly the same number of talks on each of a few different web frameworks. This year it seems that django has the same number of talks as all other frameworks together... Well not quite: i just counted 4 full django talks, 5 web framework non-django talks - but still.
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Tags: chicago, django, english, geeky, pycon, python, web

by wiswaud on 28 March 2009 | 0 comments

django ajax comments with reCAPTCHA

It turns out that the default django comments mechanisms for fighting spam are not very effective at all, contrary to my expectations. So i had to bring reCAPTCHA back. But then i figured i might as well do some kind of ajax comment form if i'm going to rewrite my commenting. A few problems cropped up, and it's still ugly, but it works now, and i haven't had a single spam comment since, whereas i consistently had a couple a day before.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, metablogging, python, web

by wiswaud on 24 March 2009 | 6 comments

updated to django 1.0.2

I finally updated this site to django 1 - 1.0.2, specifically. It took me a while, simply because i was an idiot and the way i customized the comments application so it would use reCAPTCHA to detect non-humans was just retarded. That, and i was lazy.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, metablogging, spam sucks, web

by wiswaud on 13 December 2008 | 1 comment

Django templates, and proper decorators...

It all started with a very simple thing: make a decorator that will make a view only accessible by users who are part of a certain group. But it rapidly degenerated...
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Tags: akoha, django, english, geeky, python, web

by wiswaud on 4 December 2008 | 4 comments

Trying out plurk.com's widget

I use ping.fm to update my status on different sites (twitter, pownce, facebook and plurk), just for kicks (i don't use those nearly as much as others, and of course nobody reads mine :) ). Plurk has a nice little widget, and we'll want to have something like that for akoha, so i thought i'd put it here (it's on the RHS of my blog)... as an added benefit, it'll put update content a little more often here...

Tags: akoha, english, geeky, web

by wiswaud on 13 July 2008 | 2 comments

nice helper for editing html in a textarea

I'm lazy. Django gives you a nice admin interface for free for all models you write in your webapp. Sure, you can customize it and everything, but i didn't: it just works. So that's what i use to enter new posts on this blog. But editing html is  a pain when you're lazy, so i found this really neat plugin: Xanha. It lets you open a wysiwyg editor from any textarea, edit the html graphically, then just push the raw html back to the textarea... really cool. Many kudos.

Tags: django, english, geeky, web

by wiswaud on 24 October 2007 | 0 comments

ça c'est de la radio web...

z'ent parlent un peu partout, mais je ne crois pas que beaucoup de monde aient découvert tun3r. Si c'est votre cas, allez faire un tour, c'est un syntonisateur pour des centaines de postes de radio web. L'interface est vraiment bien - c'est comme un syntonisateur: en bougeant l'aiguille vous entendez les différents postes. Ça permet de trouver exactement ce que vous voulez.

Tags: francais, web

by wiswaud on 10 August 2007 | 0 comments

Some tips for Unicode django

As of rev 5609, the unicode branch of Django has been merged into trunk. It's mostly transparent, they say, but i've had a few difficulties with it. Here's a couple of simple tips to help.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, python, web

by wiswaud on 7 August 2007 | 0 comments

Morgan Webb's new online show

Now you can get your daily Morgan Webb fix online, in an interesting new online magazine. Now only is she beautiful, she knows what she's talking about, too :)

Tags: english, geeky, web

by wiswaud on 2 August 2007 | 1 comment

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