Coder’s Eye

I’m pleased to announce the release of my first Adobe AIR application. This is a simple little desktop (not browser) app which checks your status on Weewar to see if you have any games waiting for your attention.
Revision 2.2 feature list:

Checks your status using the Weewar API
User settable interval between checks
You can force an update […]

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A while back, I wrote an article about why I was switching to ExtJS from jQuery. This remains one of the top ten pages on the site, despite the fact that I never really did switch. Checking it just now, I am certain that it is the most heavily commented article on the site.
The fact […]

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Using the free AIR code signing certificates offered by Adobe AIR Marketplace I’ve signed Weewarify 2.1 so that it doesn’t give nasty “UNKNOWN PUBLISHER” warnings when one goes to install it. Evidently, I’ll now be able to publish updates as well, and have them be automatically offered as available, so long as I use the […]

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One annoying possibility in Satchmo is that administrators sometimes accidentally set a category as its own parent. This causes an infinite loop and hangs the site. So you can’t even use Django to fix the error.
Luckily, the solution is simple. At the commandline do like so:

/opt/webapps/mystore $ ./manage.py dbshell
mysql> update product_category set parent_id=null where id=parent_id;
mysql> […]

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My latest client Farinaz Taghavi is finally in beta on her site, and one of the last steps to push her live was to set up SSL for her.
Luckily, I’ve done this a number of times, so it was quick and easy to do, but still I had to refer to various reference sites and […]

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I’m not sure how I missed it before, but PayPal has a new competitor in Amazon Payments.
I applied this evening to the beta “Flexible Payment Service” so that I can develop a plugin for Satchmo, using Amazon Payments.
It looks really interesting. The base features will be a snap to do in python/Satchmo, of course. But […]

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I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest Django site, Invisible Castle. This is a Play-by-post gaming site for RPG players, which gets over a million hits a year.
This is an absolutely huge update from the previous codebase. Before it was written cgi-style with custom cgi code and Cheetah Templates for page layout. As […]

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I’m quoted heavily in a Linux.com article about http://oohgabooga.com, the webstore I launched this summer.
If you want to hire me for your dream webstore, I’d love to talk to you. Please send an inquiry through http://solidsitesolutions.com.

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Working on Banjo Blog, nearly the only thing remaining before my initial release is a trackback/pingback system.
Oddly enough, there isn’t any django trackback app in the wild, at least not any I could find. So, I looked around and found only half-written stuff, hacky garbage and tblib, which is too old, not Django aware, and […]

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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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