Wow, I have to say that I’m getting jealous of the [tag]Ruby on Rails[/tag] framework.
Wow, I have to say that I’m getting jealous of the [tag]Ruby on Rails[/tag] framework.
Tags: Rails
As part of the Django Storefront system I am writing, I needed to send multipart messages. The base Django mail functionality doesn’t seem to do this, at least not with my version of Python.
Tags: Django · Open Source
I just sent off my first patch for Django. It adds the ability to send mail via SMTP servers which require authentication. I need this for Dreamhost, which has authentication on its mail servers.
The modifications were simple, and the code I was modifying was refreshingly clean. Better yet, the Django project site […]
A quick site update. I’ve add a couple features.First, I’ve added “email this post” functionality to every article. Now you can send anything I’ve written to a friend with one step.Perhaps more importantly, I’ve added a “Related Posts” section to every article. At this point, the related posts are only shown when you view the article on its own page, not on the front page. I’d love feedback about this. Should I add it to front page articles as well? Is that too busy?
Tags: Site
I’ve been delaying using a related entries plugin because it didn’t fit with my normal way of posting. See, it uses a Wordpress custom field "keywords" to do its matching.
Tags: Plugins · Wordpress · Open Source
I’ve been shipping a lot of packages lately. It was a big pain, and now it is not. That’s my basic review of Endicia for Mac.
Manual shipping
When I first started shipping, I’d manually label each package. My handwriting is terrible, so it looked like a retarded monkey wrote the label, and I […]
Tags: Reviews · Equipment · Macintosh
Great article at Lesscode.org, responding to Gosling’s dismissal of scripting languages.
Usually, I ignore attacks like Gosling’s as not worth my limited time and attention. I love Python, and it really doesn’t bother me when the ignorant attack my language-of-choice. This article is better than the original by orders of magnitude, due to its […]
Any programmer will tell you that one of the characteristics of really getting into a programming "flow" is that your mind is completely engaged.
Tags: Reviews · Best Practices · Django