Coder’s Eye

At the request of people on the satchmo-users mailing list, here’s my step-by-step guide to installing Satchmo on a Debian server.Debian is a wonderful base for Satchmo, much easier to set up and maintain than RedHat in my opinion.

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For my Django apps, I use a cache manager application I wrote in a brainstorm fugue state a couple months ago. I really needed it for my still-in-testing InvisibleCastle gaming site rewrite, since I do so many lookups and repetitive viewing of the same information.Once I’d written and debugged it - which took longer than I’d have liked, of course - I started using it as a matter of course in all my client projects. Then last week I had another brainstorm and actually wrote a quick set of management pages for it. Now I can observe the cache in operation, clear it, or even a subsection of it.

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I’ve gotten a lot of interest in my posting about my SSL configuration for Django/Lighttpd.

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If you tell Lighttpd about the mimetype for your AIR apps, then your users will be properly prompted when they click on the files to download/install. If not, then their browsers will complain about unknown file types.

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You can use HTTP Basic Authentication with Javascript/Ajax in just three steps. I’ll give you them in just a moment.
The Background
This morning, I was experimenting with Adobe AIR, writing a client to tell me whether I have games waiting for me to make a move on Weewar, and I needed to be able […]

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This morning, I started playing a great new online game, Weewar. which reminds me of old-school “empire” from my Amiga 800 days.

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I use and prefer Lighttpd for serving my Django applications. Tonight I worked out a nearly perfect configuration which allows me to serve the app through fastcgi in both http, and SSL-enabled https. The media files are directly served by Lighty, without hitting the django backend at all, for maximum speed.
Better yet, this […]

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This week, I’ve switched favorite Javascript frameworks. I was a heavy jQuery user, and still think that the framework is very nice. As part of a discussion on the Satchmo-Developers list about what Javascript framework to use as the default for the Satchmo web shop framework, I ended up doing a survey of […]

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After two weeks, I’m pleased to report that Spamato has been the best, most accurate spam killing solution I’ve ever tried.
In fact, the crazy truth is that I sometimes find myself wondering whether something is wrong with my mail. “I’m not getting any mail, that’s odd.” I’m just not used to sometimes checking my […]

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