Going mobile
2008 February 18
Over the weekend, I decided to whip up a mobile version of Playground Blues. I walked into Broadway Cafe around 3pm on Saturday, and by 5:30, I had m.playgroundblues.com. Here's how it went down.
Django Basic Apps
2007 December 02
I've been working on abstracting some Django applications from past projects so they can effortlessly be plugged into future projects.
Django Sprint
2007 December 01
Armed with high levels of legally addictive stimulants, silver laptops, and brilliant minds Django will get even closer to 1.0 today.
Juggling Django settings modules
2007 November 06
If you find yourself juggling multiple Django projects and constantly changing the settings module variable, try this simple shortcut.
LJWorld redesign
2007 May 02
So for the past five months or so we've been working on a redesign for the Lawrence Journal-World. For those of you that don't know, it's a daily newspaper that circulates the town of Lawrence, Kansas. It's quiet small compared surrounding markets which makes it very agile and free from shareholders and their evil agendas.
InspectDB to the rescue
2007 April 19
In a past life I used to build admin tools using Ruby on Rails. I thoroughly enjoyed spending weekends improving my little tools and libraries but I eventually realized I was spending more time on back-end stuff than front-end. Enter Django. For the past nine months I've touched nothing but Django so you can imagine how easy it was for me to hop on the Rails bicycle when Dreamhost decided to upgrade Rails.
Austin bound
2007 March 08
I'm headed to Austin, Texas today to partake in the South by Southwest festivities. The panel linup this year looks scrumptious. Unlike my pal Jeff, I have no idea what I'll be attending. I will, however, be attending as many evening parties as I can possibly stumble into.
FTP bad, versioning good
2006 October 04
You may have noticed a little downtime Sunday evening. I was able to get the Domaki code under version control which I highly recommend. It allows you to kick FTP to the curb and do everything with "svn commit" and "update" commands.
Switching from Rails to Django
2006 September 11
So back in the Fall of 2005 I launched my foray into the world of Rails like every other designer wannabe programmer. I'll be honest, I did it because everyone else was. Looking back I don't really know why, I just followed the "if it feels good, do it" principle.
Fun with Beautiful Soup
2006 September 09
So how easy is it to yank out all links in a post and display them as a list on their own? Well with a little Python love and some Django filters it's easy as microwave burritos. Before we get started you'll need a fresh copy of ElementTree and BeautifulSoup.
Slightly neurotic on change.
2006 September 04
Always tweaking here and there. Today marks a big tweak including a name change, site realignment, and a fun little visualization project. Welcome to Domaki (pronounced Du•mock•eee), formerly "You know where you are" and formally "Playground Blues." I am your host, Nathan Borror.
Del.icio.us API Interface
2006 July 17
I finally figured out how to parse the Del.icio.us API using Python and Django. The solution is quite flexible aside from the fact that the Del.icio.us API is still under development.
A Bittersweet Farewell
2006 July 13
You probably haven't noticed but the past month has been particularly challenging for me. If you're a close friend then it was probably apparent in the way I cheaply disguise my emotions.
It's Time To Behave
2006 July 10
We are all hypocrites, every damn one of us. Well, actually, just those that are guilty of inline javascript. Now don't get all puffed up, I'm just as guilty but it's time to change and I have some tips!
Django Gotchas
2006 June 30
One of the biggest hurdles in learning any new framework or programming language is learning its quirks. By quirks I don't mean bugs, I'm referring to the personality and flow. Here are a few that might help...
80x80
2006 June 26
I said Friday but I meant Monday. Sometimes things take longer but in my case I just wanted to compete for attention the same day Digg 3 launched. All amusement aside I'd like to take the plastic wrap of my new site...
Highlights
2006 May 06
I'm notorious for highlighting. At home, I'm surrounded by a rapidly growing library. Some books have been read cover to cover, some cover to creamy center, and some randomly picked through.