Coder’s Eye

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 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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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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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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