Code Koala

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!

This kinda caught me off guard, but apparently Python version 2.6.0 final has been released!

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.

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!

Use Django's Object-Relational Mapper to design your database quickly and easily--regardless of the programming language/framework used in your final product.

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!

Learn how to make your own iPod-compatible audio books using completely free utilities on Linux!

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

Yes folks, I have launched yet another website.

The details on the verdict concerning the legality of my PyScriptures program.

The latest release of PyScriptures is ready!

PyScriptures has moved to Google Code in order to allow more people access to the program.

The first "official" public release of PyScriptures.

The steps I took to install Slackware 12.1 on my Asus EeePC (701).

Are Web developers setting themselves up for huge problems in the future?

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.

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

Learn how to compile and install your own Linux kernel so you can tweak your system to the max!

Sometimes things just go wrong when you try to change your bootloader in Linux. Whether you use GRUB or LILO (or some other bootloader), this article may be of use if you find your MBR somewhat hosed.

I recently purchased a 120GB drive to use as a shared disk between computers. Since I use several operating systems regularly, I wanted a format that all could play well with. Here's what I had to do.

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.

Learn how to get MySQL up and running on a fresh installation of Slackware.

Learn some basic information about Linux and how to use the command line interface.

With the newest release of my favorite distribution of Linux, I had to try my hand at installing and running it on my laptop. This is the beginning of a series of smaller articles dealing with Slackware 11.0.

Accessing wireless networks with Linux can be one of the biggest pains ever--trust me. I have created this guide in hopes that your attempts may go better than my first attempts.

The steps I took in order to install SLED 10.0 on my HP Pavilion dv8000. Hopefully this article will be of use to you.

Ever started a project that involved multiple developers, or wanted to keep track of changes that you make to your files? Learn how to effectively use a Subversion (SVN) repository to ease the burden of manually merging or backing up files.

Is the scroll button on your mouse not working under Linux? Learn how to enable it with just a few lines in a configuration file.