Posts for November, 2008
Programming Meme
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Programming
on November 25, 2008
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Eric Florenzano started a fun programming meme over at his blog, and I thought I'd join the fun. I'm planning to get a G1 phone sometime early next year, so I thought it would be a good time for an initial foray into Java since I plan to create custom ...
Continue readingDjango's Dynamic URLs
One of the strengths of the Django framework is its emphasis on the Don't Repeat Yourself philosophy. From Wikipedia: "The philosophy emphasizes that information should not be duplicated, because duplication increases the difficulty of change, may decrease clarity, and leads to opportunities for inconsistency." This approach has many advantages in ...
Continue readingMy Django Development, Testing, and Production Environments
I've seen a lot of discussion lately about different strategies for developing and deploying Django applications. I wanted to share my current environment in the hopes that it might help someone new to Django or software development in general, and I was also hoping for some constructive criticism so that ...
Continue readingBlog Updates
I implemented a few minor updates to the blog today that I wanted to spend a moment talking about. Redirects I added the django.contrib.redirects app to redirect requests for the old URLs from the Diario app to the new URLs under the Django Basic Blog app. I switched to Basic ...
Continue readingSimple Sharepoint API Usage with jQuery - Part 2
In my last post I talked about a simple example of using Sharepoint's owssvr.dll API interface with jQuery. Today I want to provide a more complex example by showing how I've used the technique to create object collections that can be manipulated to generate on-the-fly statistics. To start with, I ...
Continue readingSimple Sharepoint API Usage with jQuery - Part 1
(This is part 1 of a 2-part post. Part 2 can be found here) I've recently worked on some projects for a company heavily using Microsoft's Sharepoint platform. I've been trying to move away from it as much as possible, but for a few of my projects it has been ...
Continue readingBrandon Konkle
I've been creating websites for over 10 years, and I've been using Django since early 2008. I focus on high quality, well-tested, maintainable code and reliable high-performance deployments. Web development is something that I am very excited about, and I love finding elegant and innovative ways to push web applications further.
