Code Koala

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!

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!

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

Reflections on a recent experience as a freelance developer.

Yes folks, I have launched yet another website.

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

Yet another frustipation concerning Windows.

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.

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!

For those of you who love Java as much as I do, you might be wondering if your existing netbeans projects can be upgraded to JDK 6. This will explain how to do it.

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.