Articles, notes, and technical write-ups.
I just had a situation where I was trying to filter the queryset for a ModelMultipleChoiceField based on the currently logged-on user. I was going crazy trawling through the Django docs and eventually Google. Read more
One of my passions has always been the articulate expression of oneself through language. Read more
I’ve used Django for a few small projects in the last year and have absolutely fallen in love with it. Read more
Have you ever been in the situation where you’ve updated your CSS file but users’ web browsers haven’t automatically loaded the new one? Read more
SourceForge has changed its appearance more often in the past 6 months than Joan Rivers’ face. Not in small ways either. Read more
Following on from the wildly successful Stack Overflow programming questions and answers website, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky have launched Server Fault, a questions and answers site following the same format but now for “system administrators and IT professionals”. Read more
I’ve just launched a new website for Tubecaster. The new site was created with Django, with which I’m extremely impressed. Read more
I’m a huge fan of the Windows Quick Launch bar. Mine is two lines high and contains 20 shortcuts, all of which I use almost every day. Read more
The wonderful folks at Balsamiq have graciously donated a license for their Mockups user interface design software to the Tubecaster project to help with future improvements. Read more
Yesterday I was looking for a Python source code line counter to give me a summary of some source files, but I couldn’t find a free one that would do the job as I wanted. So I created one. Read more