Coder’s Eye

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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I finally got around to updating my Adobe AIR apps to the latest version of the runtime. Argh.
They keep changing the sandbox! It is incredibly annoying to have to work around the sandbox, and then to have to go make seemingly arbitrary tweaks on every version update.
Regardless, I’ve now updated Bluegrid and Weewarify to work […]

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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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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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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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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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I searched all over the place last night and I couldn’t find anything that could import passwords into Yojimbo for me. I did see a lot of complaining about the lack of ability to do so, however.
Since I really like the app in most ways except for its lame import capabilities, I whipped one […]

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A recent client needed me to run some Windows-only software from their network.

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Whew. I spent quite a bit more time debugging this problem than it really should have taken. Django just wasn’t playing nice with the latest Lighttpd pre-release.
Long story short
Don’t use the prerelease, use the most recent 1.4.x stable. Save yourself hours of cursing and trace-debugging.
Analysis
Lighttpd had the following problems:

No request PATH_INFO. […]

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