I’ve always disliked the way named anchors (
<a href="#name">...</a>
) behave in browsers. It jumps your viewport to a different part of the page, but it’s rarely obvious which section you have landed on. If the page is long …
This post got a bit long-winded,
skip to the project announcment
if you prefer.
One of the things I love about Python and Django is the philosophy that
there is one obvious way to do things
. Standards make it …
While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative,
recovery.org
, I noticed something of interest.
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script
type
=
"text/javascript"
>
<!--
//--><![CDATA[//><!--
jQuery
.
extend
(
Drupal
.
settings
,
{
"basePath"
:
"/"
});
//--><!]]> …
Satchmo
is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like ZenCart and
OSC
ommerce, Satchmo’s ease of customization make it a joy to work with.
Unfortunately, all the features can …
In the process of prepping
Gondola
CMS
for public consumption, we’ve grown from having a developer (me), to having a development team. One pain point that quickly arose was the amount of time it took for new developers to setup …
We all know not to serve static media (images,
CSS
, Javascript, etc.) in production directly from Django. Thankfully, Django gives us some nice settings like
MEDIA
_URL
and
MEDIA
_ROOT
to make serving them a lot less painless. Lately, …
After reading the comments on
my last post on the subject
, I realized there was definitely some room for improvement in my strategy. This is take two of the original post.
Problems
My original strategy had a couple of …
Gondola is our content management system built on top of Django. I briefly showed it off during
my DjangoCon Lightning Talk
, but have been wanting to give it a proper screencast for a while. Here’s an introduction:
A few …
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 …
This article is outdated, you’ll find an
updated article here
.
A friend is in the process of setting up a new slice at everbody’s favorite
VPS
provider
Slicehost
and asked for some advice. I use MySQL, Nginx & Apache/mod_wsgi …