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Django Plugables

 April.29th.2008 • 4:36PM 5 Comments

This is the story of a guy and his company’s first application, Django Plugables. Well, actually it’s more of a utility but that’s besides the point. Said guy takes you on an overview of what went into the creation of said application.

For those of you who haven’t heard or have been living under the proverbial rock, Revyver released its first “application” about three weeks ago. And yes, only now am I getting around to writing about Django Plugables. I put application in quotes mainly because it’s more of a utility than a social network application1.

So here it is, “The story of Django Plugables” or “How I built something in 5 days.”

Day 1: Find what’s pissing me off

This story starts with a problem. Every story has to start out with a problem, right? “Boy ...

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Dynamic Javascript In Django

 April.4th.2008 • 12:15AM 6 Comments

This is the story of a guy, Google and Django. After a hard fought battle with jQuery, the guy takes on Google Maps. After conquering them, he doesn’t feel right leaving all of the Javascript embedded in his templates. This is his journey to liberate them.

Work has started and is continuing on what I’m labeling 25.1. Yes I’m treating this as an app, but more on that later. ;) Part of 25.1 involves Google Maps, which like jQuery is something that would usually lead to me wanting to decapitate myself. Thankfully, Google helped and sample code is the shit.

But first, a little history. Like Jeff, I’ve been going on a geocoding spree. I’ve made it a habit to accurately geocode all of my Flickr photos and then bring them to Django using django-syncr. Unfortunately, django-syncr isn’t working ...

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My Reasons for Django

 May.4th.2007 • 10:12PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and a framework that was introduced to him by a friend. The guy was looking to graduate from the tried and true WordPress and build his own thing—just like all the cool kids seemed to be doing.

It’s almost nauseating how many frameworks and blogging engines onecan choose today. Everything from Ruby on Rails, to SimpleLog and Mephisto, to CakePHP, Expression Engine, the growing Habari Project and even good ‘ol WordPress. All of these contenders (and the loads of others that I haven’t mentioned) have their appealing values, I had reasons, albeit small in most cases against using them. Note that I’ll be intentionally making general assumptions—each tool has their rightful place in different projects, just not in this “exploratory” one.

It wasn’t until I exchanged a few emails with Jeff ...

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