Lincoln Loop

Customizing the Django Admin at EuroDjangoCon 2009

June 22, 2009 | django, presentation | 2 comments

Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at EuroDjangoCon about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the admin customizations we had done on Gondola, I had a bunch of people get in touch with me asking me to do a write-up about how it was done. After about 8 months of heel-dragging, I finally took the time to do it in presentation form.

Our talk was divided into two parts. First our User Experience Director, Michael, gave an overview of user interface design and why it is important, pulling examples from some real-world interfaces. Comparing the default Django admin to a custom built application specific interface was an intentional cheap-shot to get people to think outside-the-box when working with the admin. Our argument was that it is possible to recreate any of the example interfaces while still leveraging some of the power baked into django.contrib.admin ...

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My Lightning Talk from DjangoCon 2008

September 18, 2008 | django, presentation, trailmapping | 2 comments

DjangoCon was an amazing conference all around. I met some great people and learned a lot. I also had the opportunity to get up on stage and present some of the things I’ve been working on here. I was really nervous and after seeing how well prepared the presenters before me were, I had doubts about my plan to go on stage and wing it. I spoke about Trailmapping and Gondola the CMS I’ve been working on.

Afterwards, I was blown away by the number of compliments I received. A few people told me they thought my talk was the best of the bunch which was really encouraging. To everyone that reached out, all I can say is thanks; it meant a lot. I’m inspired to carve out some more time to blog about the things I’m working on, specifically Django admin customization and jQuery.

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WEB Presentation

December 13, 2006 | presentation | Only one comment so far.

I’d like to thank the Steamboat Springs Women Empowered in Business (WEB) group for inviting me to present at their meeting today. We discussed the recent surge in spam and how to combat it along with web hosting, web design, and our new billing system. Here are some related links for further reading.

• Read more about the recent wave of spam at Ars Technica, Security Focus, and Postini.
• This site graphs the weekly spam trends. As of this writing, it is offline, but I imagine it will be back up soon.
• Our recommended method of spam/virus filtering is Postini.
• Here is the link to our public uptime reports.
• We spoke briefly about the “new style” of coding and building websites based on web standards and accessibility. Here’s a quick rundown of the benefits you’ll get with a standards based website.
• I spoke about our new billing ...

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