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I've been working on updating all of my articles to use ReStructured text formatting these past couple of days. Basically ever since I started using Django on my personal sites, I used Textile formatting to make my articles look pretty, and it treated me well. However, I found...

The Django team has once again announced a new release of their absolutely amazing framework. Right on schedule, version 1.0.1 has been made available to the world. This release packs over two hundred fixes over the original Django 1.0 codebase. I'm in the process of upgrading my...

I've posted some screenshots for my django-pendulum application!

Here's yet another application to help you make your site more useful to your users. django-reploc is a "representative locator" for Django-powered Web sites. It uses the Google Maps API to offer your users an interactive map of your representatives, vendors, friends, houses, etc.

I built this application to...

Up until a couple weeks ago, I had never installed a FavIcon on any of my Django sites. I never really thought about it until one day I enabled the SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS setting for one of my sites. As soon as I did that, I was able to track...

Ever curious to see information about failed login attempts on your site? This morning I threw together a small, simple Django application that allows you to do just that. I'm calling this project django-axes, which is pronounced as "jango access".

I've only tested it on my own site, so...

Several updates made to django-pendulum.

I've released my personal time clock application on Google Code!

Ever since my wife bought me one of the 3gen iPod nano's, I've been stuck using that blasted iTunes program (which doesn't work on Linux) to synchronize my music and movies. Thanks to a little bit of surfing I did today, I accidentally found a solution to my predicament.

For those of you who are actually able to view my site right now, you're lucky.

Ever in the mood to have your Web site change colors depending on what day of the year it is (kinda the way Google's logo changes on holidays and such)? Well now you can do it a lot easier.

In continuation of a previous article, now you can learn how to install Django on a shared hosting provider. I know for a fact that this HOWTO works with Site5 because I used it to setup a friend's account with Django a few minutes ago.

Django 1.0 final is here at last!

Finally, I have created my very first extension for Firefox. It's simple and to-the-point, but I think it does its job well!

Django's newly merged comments application seemed to break a lot of things for me. Here are some tips in case you're in the same boat.

For those of us who are looking for or offering design services. Learn what you should be looking for in an agency, or how you should be acting as an agency.

Now all Django users have a simple way to keep track of active users on their Django-powered websites. Installs in less than 5 minutes!

Learn how to get started with Django on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

My newest project: django-clevercss, an interface to CleverCSS for those of us who are somewhat lazy or bored.

Bigger and better things are always on the way!

The awesome Django developers and contributors have finally merged the newforms-admin branch into trunk!!!

CodeKoala.com is 100% search engine optimized!

Yes folks, I have launched yet another website.

Add the SwiftFox Debian repositories to your system to make for easy installation and upgrades.

Learn how to add Opera to your Debian repository list to make installation and updates easy.

Learn how to add the Debian Multimedia repositories to your system so you can easily install and update useful video and audio programs, codecs, and libraries.

Some thoughts about my preference for the Python programming language.

Now you have a new way of checking my site without actually bothering with it.

I finally made my first contribution to an open source project!

Many of us who use Linux on our laptops have run into a particularly annoying feature when surfing the & 'Net. Sometimes when you try to simply move the mouse, your web browser magically goes to a different page. Let's fix this.

This is a great feature and all, but I personally don't like the "nag" screen when I don't shut down Firefox the way I should.