Reviews Entries
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Apr122010
Integrating CKEditor into Django
After writing a post on my reasons for writing my own blogging app, I received a couple of questions on how to integrate CKEditor into Django.
I thought I would write a tutorial post on how to do this, but a friend have since developed a great application that works brilliantly. Shaun's django-ckeditor can be found on github. (Note that we have since found out that django-ckeditor has a name conflict, and will probably be renamed soon)
The app provides 2 methods to integrate the editor, either …
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Mar032010
A Fresh Look for Ubuntu
Since there are far too many blogs already talking about the new ubuntu look, I'm not going to saturate the blogosphere further with yet another post about the new look. This entry is merely to highten awareness, in case someone missed the news in other blog entries, tweets, forums, etc.
The ubuntu wiki has more information and screenshots if anyone is interested.
If you would like to engage in more of a discussion or see more of a review, I suggest you read the blogs here and …
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Feb192010
Why I Love django-photologue
When I first started working with Django, I didn't know about photologue. Whenever I needed an image for a particular model, I would use the standard django ImageField(). I would search on the internet for snippets and techniques on creating thumbnails for the images when they are saved. This became a bit tedious, and after searching for a while longer, I discovered a wonderful little app, which I still use from time to time, called sorl.
The next project I woked on required a gallery, I thought I'd take advantage …
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May292009
Agile Scotland Training day
I just came back from a training day titled: “Introduction to Lean and Agile - for Scottish Businesses”. This little crash course was presented by Clarke Ching and Rob Lally, both veterans of their fields.
I have to say that I'm using the term “crash course” very loosely, and may not do the day enough credit. What we got by the end for the sessions, was very valuable. I myself was under the impression that I understood most of the concepts, but quickly realized that I missed the ball on many levels.
Clarke …
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Apr162009
New Jaunty Login Screen
“I had a screenshot here, but lost it when I moved my site to the new backend.”
So I recently downloaded the Beta version of the new Ubuntu Jaunty, and I was pleasantly surprised when the login screen appeared.
I absolutely love it! They definately have to work this into the style into the rest of the OS. They can even use that background image, or a variant thereoff, for the default background once your logged in.
All in all, great job to the Ubutnu folks!
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Dec202008
First Thoughts on Google App Engine
Yesterday morning, I finally got my invitation for trying out the Google App Engine. It was so long ago that I signed up, I even forgot I was on the list!
Well, I was busy for most of the day, but when I got home later the afternoon, I decided to give it a go. In about a hour I was done with the first tutorial, and was enlightened to so many new possibilities. I never realized that GAE makes use of google accounts, looking back now, it's obvious that it would, but I never thought …
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Jul182008
Amazing Support at Webfaction
Amazing!
I've been trying for the last 2 weeks to install a add-on product for my Plone sites on Webfaction. On my local machine, the add-on product ran fine with no problems, but unfortunately I had trouble installing it on the production servers.
So I jumped on the Webfaction forums to ask for their assistance. After fixing up a cup of coffee and warming up some soup, I sat back down and there was already a reply!
There was some initial hick-ups, but after a couple hours, I was yet again amazed at …