Many stores use GNU Mailman to maintain a mailing list for store sales and newsletters. Satchmo has this as a built-in option, for example. It isn’t too bad an option, after all. You can easily set options so that it is “push only” and therefore only the mailing list owner can send mail.
(Yes, it really […]
Tags: Best Practices · Linux
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 […]
Tags: Lighttpd · Best Practices · Django · Linux
After reviewing several online data backup services and software packages, I choose Mozy Online Backup.
Recently I was doing a server move for a client. From an ancient slow system costing her too much money (and me too much bother dealing with a know-it-all-wrong admin) at Today.net, to a nice modern VPS reliably, competently and fully managed by LiquidWeb.
Last year, I wrote her a travel reservation & quoting app in […]
Last year, I wrote about my love of apps which “just fit” into OSX. At that time, iGTD was my pick for an app that best fit my Mac and how I use it.
Unfortunately, despite it being easy to get new tasks into iGTD, it wasn’t so easy for me to use on a regular […]
Tags: Macintosh
When you are installing OSX Leopard, do not choose “case sensitive, journaled” for your file system, or else you won’t be able to install Photoshop CS3.
Ouch. There went a couple hours. Nothing is quite as frustrating as simply dumping the time immediately after your system is installed.
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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.
Tags: Satchmo · Lighttpd · OS · Hosting · Linux · Django · Python
I’ve gotten a lot of interest in my posting about my SSL configuration for Django/Lighttpd.
Tags: Lighttpd · Django · Linux
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 […]
Tags: Open Source · Macintosh
I’ve been enjoying being a core developer on the Satchmo e-commerce engine built on the Django framework. Finally, we’re pushing toward our first major release, tentatively numbered 0.5.
My major contribution to this release is the payment module system. The idea is to allow for flexible development of payment modules for most any style of […]