Coder’s Eye

When I recently updated an Adobe AIR app I’d written for AIR Beta 1, I found that I had to go to enormous lengths to continue being able to use Ext as a support library for it.

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I’m a big fan of the Blueprint CSS framework. In the process of using it to develop the base template for Banjo, the blog app I’m writing, I realized I need a tool to help me keep page elements lined up on the grid, both vertically and horizontally.
Blueprint comes with a background grid image to […]

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After more work than I expected, I’ve updated my Weewar status notifier to work with the Adobe Air Beta 2 SDK.
There were two tricky parts to the update. The first, separating the AJAX/UI logic out into a separate sandbox. The second challenge was getting rid of the pesky scrollbars AIR seemed to insist […]

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Thanks to Andy C I’ve finished the Wordpress import script for Banjo.
That article gives instructions for direct SQL loading of a somewhat different blog database. I couldn’t use it directly for Banjo, partially because I’m through with using MySQL. I just can’t take all the UTF problems any more. I’ve gone all […]

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I’m nearing release 0.1 for Banjo, a blog app written in Python on the Django framework. If you look at the mailing list, you’ll see plenty of people asking about a blog app, and the standard reply is that it is just so easy, almost trivial, to write your own that there is not […]

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My premiere e-commerce client, Oohgabooga Island Traders launched yesterday. After doing a little dance of happiness, I sat down to think through all that went into it.
I used the Satchmo e-commerce framework for Django to build it. Of course I did, because I am a core developer on Satchmo, and a peripheral contributor […]

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