That’s enough code for one night, gotta get up early to provide training for clients tomorrow.
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Blog Entry posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 11:31 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Photo by golfer4life under a Creative Commons license.
I’ve had to shut off commenting functionality for the time being folks. The spammers have been trying hard to get in, and the code that I’ve written to run comments though Akismet for spam checking is occasionally resulting in a spinning process on the server if it gets too many requests. So, I’m rewriting my spam checking code, and will hopefully finish that up and have commenting functions available again soon.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 10:49 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
I’ve been toying with adapting my site code to do this sort of thing. It’s always nice to see when someone else takes the time to publish their solution. I don’t know if I’ll end up doing exactly the same thing, but this post certainly gave me some ideas.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 09:01 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Another very astute analysis from ReadWriteWeb in which they discuss how simple and contextual interfaces are becoming more popular than the standard “Windows UI” approach of “never-ending choices.” The author asks if these simpler interfaces will become dominant in the near future, and I certainly hope they do.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 11:15 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an interesting post by Jeff Atwood on how programmers should handle session expiration in their applications. I particularly like his explanation of why session expiration occurs:
“The HTTP protocol that the web is built on is stateless. That means every individual request your browser sends to a web server is a newborn babe, cruelly born into a world that is utterly and completely oblivious to its existence.” 
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 16:25 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a great post by Jason Fried over at 37 signals. As he mentions, this won’t work in every industry, but it absolutely makes sense in software. Good stuff.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 23:30 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a useful guide for navigating some of the specifics of getting a Django project up and running on Google App Engine.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 12:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Via Simon Willison:
This is a real cool Django app that creates an awesome interface to help internationalize your site. Allows the adminstrator, and an optional group of designated translators to read and write your site’s gettext files.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:26 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a Digg-like site for developers. It’s still fairly small, but I found some really great content that I hadn’t seen before within the first ten minutes of browsing it.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 21:53 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Google provides major infrastructure for web app hosting, in direct competition with Amazon’s Web Services. Google’s service is free unless you go over your limits, which look reasonable at the outset. Your app needs to be written in Python (more languages available later), which will be a limitation for some, but as you may have noticed I am quite fond of that language.
That being said, the platform is pretty proprietary, and at this point I don’t have enough info on how easy/difficult it is to get your stuff back out of it if you need to. This is an exciting offering, but one I’ll probably wait and watch on.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 @ 15:38 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an awesome new feature in Django trunk that I hadn’t heard of before. Django now provides a system for handling multiple step form entry. Can’t wait to try this out.
Wernher Von Braun by Tom Lehrer
The Luckiest Guy on the Lower by The Magnetic Fields
One of My Kind by Concrete Blonde
Terrible Thought by Poe
World Keeps Turning by Tom Waits
