18 month ago
philgyford : Django Deployment Workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss - This looks good. A three hour video tutorial about deploying Django, "including Amazon's EC2 and S3, Fabric, Varnish, nginx, mod_wsgi, memcached, PostgreSQL, pgpool, pg_standby, and more." I just need to find three spare hours now.
#18 month ago
philgyford : The Best (and Worst) of Django - A presentation covering a few things to do or avoid. Bookmarking it mainly for the settings bit at the end, something I should do better, like this.
#18 month ago
philgyford : Pinboard/Fandom OTP - Renaming tags - A way to rename any/all of your tags on Pinboard using Python. (via @pinboard)
#21 month ago
philgyford : Scott Chacon on the Interwebs - GitHub Flow - How GitHub manage their own git workflow. Sounds good to me. (via Tom Taylor)
nelson : github's workflow - A simple way to use git in a group
#21 month ago
philgyford : Compass Home | Compass Documentation - "An open-source CSS Authoring Framework" which uses Sass. There's always more to learn.
#21 month ago
philgyford : Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets - "Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more." Compiles sass files into CSS files.
#21 month ago
philgyford : Rentzsch.tumblr.com: HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack - A couple of things for future reference. (via Daring Fireball)
#21 month ago
philgyford : Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby - Hyperpolyglot - Handy comparison of features of Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby, for when my brain has trouble switching. (via Kottke)
#21 month ago
simplebits : Golden Grid System - A folding grid for responsive design.
Andy Baio : Golden Grid System - from Joni Korpi, who also offers this nice trick for subtly hiding Typekit font replacement
philgyford : Golden Grid System - This looks very nice. Making a stretchable grid for web pages, that changes the number of columns depending on the page width. I want to play with this. (via Waxy)
#22 month ago
philgyford : Chosen - a JavaScript plugin for jQuery and Prototype - makes select boxes better - That's a lovely, nicely done thing. (via Infovore)
#23 month ago
philgyford : Carbonmade : Your online portfolio. - Quite fun looking, free portfolio websites.
#23 month ago
philgyford : Django Authentication using an Email Address - I've read a lot of half-thought-through explanations for how to let users of a Django site log in with email address rather than username. This seems to be the only one that covers all the bases. Still, it shouldn't be this hard.
#23 month ago
philgyford : Comment Challenge plugin - Apparently is (still) effective at stopping Movable Type comment spam. I feel like I've gone back in time several years.
#23 month ago
philgyford : Resetting Your South Migrations - I was thinking of doing this after a lot of solo early development on a Django project.
#23 month ago
philgyford : How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs - 10,000 Words - Describing how the 'Bangor Daily News' (Maine, USA) uses Google Docs and WordPress to publish its website and then send the text to InDesign for laying out the print paper. Includes a list of WP plugins used. (via @benhammersley)
#23 month ago
philgyford : UseTheSource | Newest Jobs - John Graham-Cumming's tech job board for Hacker News folk, the name of which I'll never remember, hence bookmarking it here.
#24 month ago
philgyford : Kindle typography - Going to some lengths to make Kindle typography better using JavaScript and CSS.
#24 month ago
philgyford : Difference between geo and coordinates in status - Twitter Development Talk | Google Groups - Coordinates vs geo vs place in the Twitter API. It's not good when you have to read email threads to work out how to use a company's API.
#26 month ago
philgyford : RequireJS - To help with modularising JavaScript, loading bits asynchronously, managing dependencies, etc. Looks indispensable for large JS projects.
#26 month ago
nelson : JavaScript Garden - Lots of nice notes on gotchas in the language
philgyford : JavaScript Garden - A good run-through of some of JavaScript's tricky bits, a lot like Crockford's 'JavaScript: The Good Parts'. I still don't get prototypes etc though. (via Cal)
#26 month ago
philgyford : DataMapper ORM - User Guide - There seem to be several past versions of this; I think this is the current one. Looks like just what I needed to fill the gaps in CodeIgniter that always left me frustrated with it.
#26 month ago
philgyford : Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style | Foursquare Engineering Blog - Nice description of how Foursquare developed their tool for recommending places to you in Foursquare v3. (via Tom Taylor)
#26 month ago
philgyford : Balsamiq - Very nice-seeming Flash-based tool for creating mockups of UIs, userflows, etc.
#26 month ago
philgyford : Performance Calendar » PNG that works - Everything you need to know about PNGs on the web in one handy, well-explained page. (via Dotcode)
#27 month ago
philgyford : Use Django and jQuery to create a spreadsheet application - That's a more interesting guide/demo than "how to make a weblog". (via Django Weekly)
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