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Installing Adobe Air on Ubuntu Jaunty 64-bit
I just finished installing Adobe Air on my Ubuntu Linux desktop running a fresh install of the Jaunty 64-bit beta. It was a lot more straightforward than the instructions that Adobe provided here. I found that in my installation of Jaunty, all of the libs that that have you manually ...
Continue readingDjango Dev, Test, and Prod Environments Revisited
Back in November, I posted a detailed entry about the environments I used to develop, test, and deploy my Django applications. Since then, I've made a lot of changes to my configuration that I feel have helped boost my productivity and effectiveness. I wanted to talk a little bit about ...
Continue readingAjax Django Comments With jQuery
NOTE: This example is outdated, and it violates the DRY principal. For a revised look at this topic, check out my more recent post here: DRY Ajax Comments I haven't posted here in awhile because of quite a few things going on in my personal and professional life lately. Things ...
Continue readingAutomated Webfaction DNS Override Updates
I use DNS overrides with WebFaction to point several subdomains to my home servers. My internet service provider, however, provides my router a dynamic IP address that changes every time my DSL modem is disconnected and then reconnected to their system. Each time this happens, it disrupts service to the ...
Continue readingProgramming Meme
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 readingDjango-Picasso
I love Google's Picasa desktop application, and the ability to upload photos to the Picasa Web Albums site using the app is extremely useful. When I built my personal website using Django, I wanted a way to use Picasa Web Albums as a backend for my photos section so that ...
Continue readingDjango Colors for Eclipse
For a long time now, I've been using Gedit + plugins as an integrated development environment. I recently began using SVN to manage version control, however, and I wasn't able to find a good SVN client plugin for Gedit. I decided to see what else was out there, and after ...
Continue readingDjango with Apache and mod_auth_sspi
I recently finished up a project for a company intranet using Windows. Though Windows is not my favorite environment, Django works flawlessly there so it usually doesn't present many problems. One of the features needed for the site was automatic authentication through integrated Windows security. To achieve this, I used ...
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.
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