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Entries from July 2007

Training My Spamato Spam Filter

July 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Months ago, I threw in the towel with my old Spam filter, SpamFire. It was apparently written in RealBasic, and so it was slow and constantly got “stuck.” I’d rather have spam than have to be constantly nursing a memory hog, finicky application.
Finally I got fed up with my spam problem this morning […]

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Tags: Open Source · Macintosh

Cross-browser safe, readable Javascript style

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Over time and thousands of lines of professional Javascript programming, I’ve developed an almost bulletproof Javascript layout style. It is important to have one, even if you are the only person working on your script, because:

it helps you read the code more quickly
it helps you not forget browser "gotchas"
it makes your code more reusable […]

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Tags: Tips · Javascript

Pushing toward a Satchmo Release

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been enjoying being a core developer on the Satchmo e-commerce engine built on the Django framework. Finally, we’re pushing toward our first major release, tentatively numbered 0.5.

My major contribution to this release is the payment module system. The idea is to allow for flexible development of payment modules for most any style of […]

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Tags: Satchmo · OS · Django