I searched for “django gearman” on Google and Bing, and found precious little.  There isn’t much out there, so I’ve decided to put together my own example, using Gearman as a queue manager.
If you don’t know what Gearman is, it’s a “generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are [...]

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Oh, what a surprise!  Firefox implements the HTML5 “article” tag as display: inline, and Chrome implements it as display:block.
How annoying.  Well, it’s a simple CSS setting to make it work as expected.
(Edit: I see, as always, A List Apart is way ahead of me on this.  By almost a year!)

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I learned today how to enable ReCaptcha for Django. It’s fairly trivial. I’ll show you how to enable this for account registration.
First, go and create a key pair for your site. You don’t even have to give them an email address, which is nice.
Install the recaptcha client library on your site:
pip install [...]

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Inspired by Five Web Files That Will Improve Your Website, I decided this morning to implement OpenSearch on the Indieflix Website. (It’s not up yet, we’re still beta’ing it, and it’s along with a massive list of changes that still need testing, so don’t go looking for it.) OpenSearch is a way to [...]

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As I’ve been working on a project at Indieflix, I’ve been evaluating other people’s code, including drop-ins, and for the past couple of days a pattern has emerged that, at first, bugged the hell out of me. Django has these lovely things called context processors– they allow you to attach specific elements of code [...]

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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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