Category: Web development

Some tips for keeping your Django apps lean and mean from the beginning, using lessons from django-fiber,

A quickstart for deploying a Django project to a shared hosting system like WebFaction.

O gods of software development and operations, I have sinned.
 
Your anger falls on me, and I feel your wrath...

A quick Family Fortunes game

An app to help protect your customers' data when in development.

Based on my recent Haskell experience, I highlight some cases where I think static type checks provide a better testing mechanism than unit tests or other automated tests.

I finally finished a non-trivial Haskell project!

Is this a bizarre GHC bug? Or a bug in me?

A review of "Django 1.0 Template Development" by Scott Newman, from Packt Publishing.

An article from Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman, about how to output a document in multiple formats/styles using Django templates.

Beginnings of a Django-inspired Haskell web framework, Ella.

I am really stubborn, so I never completely gave up on my little pet project of re-writing my blog as a Haskell CGI app. I also didn't give up on using my budget host. (Partly because I have even less money than before). So, the saga continues...

After reading that in Python 2.5 some big memory leaks are fixed, I just switched a Django site from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5. I wasn't disappointed -- the combined memory usage of my Apache processes (which are using mod_python) went from 100Mb to 60Mb. So, for anyone else wanted to conserve memory, this is the first thing I'd suggest!

I created a system and web app to help me organise my Bible memorisation. And I rant a bit Django and web.py.

How to use Twill within Django unit tests

I present below some example code for using Django, newforms and MochiKit to do AJAX validation, in case anyone else is doing the same, complete with a live demo...

I've updated my validator app to work with 'unicodised' Django...

Where I give up...