I recently implemented a new subsite for IndieFlix using LessCss, the Leaner CSS metaframework. LessCss is a programming language that abstracts CSS out into a hierarchal language, where instead of writing:
#header { … }
#header img { … }
You write:
#header {
…
img { … }
}
Which, believe me, makes [...]

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Sharper FX
They do nothing but churches. Black churches, too. Sharper FX is an 11 on the scale of Manliness. Watch some of the Flash splash pages. They’re amazing. I love this site.

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A friend of mine pointed me to the website of CB Richard Ellis, a real-estate investment and management house with a big footprint here in the Pacific Northwest.
Their hiring website is a horror. No, really, go look, unless you’re an epileptic. (Sadly, the effect only seems to be present for [...]

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I had a job interview today, and one of the “challenges” with which I was presented was this: “We own several sites. We would like our user to be able to log into the central site as a subscriber, and then all the other sites will know what permissions that user has.”
The sites are [...]

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While visiting with friends and family this weekend, I ran into a long-missed flame who said she was frustrated because she’d gone back to school to renew her web design business, last heard from about a decade ago, but the school seemed insistent about teaching her programming instead. Her head was full of PHP [...]

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So, I got tired of the way Django-SocialAuth was borked and not working for me, so I forked the project and have put up my own copy at GitHub.
There are three things I noticed about the project right away: First, it forces you to use a broken templating scheme. I haven’t fixed that, but [...]

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This is part 4 of a series.
So far, we’ve written a basic Django application, written some tests for it, checked everything into a central repository, and then integrated those tests with the Hudson continual integration server.
But Django’s tests run in a kind of pseudo-server mode, with both the tests and the application running inside the [...]

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Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living.
If you hack HTML for a living, this will make you giggle.  And given that I’ve used regex in my tests to assert the presence of classes and objects in a page, I guess I’m guilty.

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This is part 3 of a series.
In part 1 we set up a Hudson test server, and in part 2 I introduced a simple Django application with some simple tests.
Now we’re going to make Hudson run those simple tests. Prerequisites: Your box for running this application must be able to run both Hudson and [...]

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This is Part 2 of a series.
Before I demonstrate how to do continual integration testing, I need a demonstration application. I’ve chosen a simple Django application, your basic echo program, with no styling or media at all. This ought to be more than enough to demonstrate base functionality.
A New Django Project
Start by building [...]

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