Category Archives: Web Development

Articles regarding web development.

Django: Pt 2

A quick note to say as much as I like Django, it turns out I still get really frus­trated with Python. I keep get­ting stu­pid inden­ta­tion errors. I find that using spaces instead of tabs is as I said in my ear­lier post a big part of this. I just screw up spaces when I

Django as an Alternative

After really look­ing back and forth regard­ing WordPress and Drupal I decided to look around at dif­fer­ent devel­op­ment frame­works just for gig­gles and ran into Django (pro­nounced jango) again. I have run across Django before and usu­ally elim­i­nated it imme­di­ately because it is Python based instead of PHP. But for what ever silly rea­son… uhm,

WordPress and PostgreSQL (part 2)

Well, after a long thought I have decided to stick with WordPress for the time being which means I won’t be mov­ing every­thing over to PostgreSQL. I still have the same moti­va­tion for mov­ing to PostgreSQL that I had before but I am just com­fort­able for the time being with WordPress.

What about Joomla?

In my pon­der­ings about WordPress and PostgreSQL I was chal­lenged to con­sider Joomla. Believe me, I have con­sid­ered Joomla and rejected it, at least for my use. Let me give you a brief his­tory of Joomla and me.

Yes, Open Source Is Important

I have a bit of a rant in me right now so you may want to duck and cover. Although I tend to dis­agree with some of the rabid and rather con­strain­ing ide­olo­gies in the open source com­mu­nity, I have always agreed with the basic issue that the source code should be open so that

Mulling over a Web Trend

I am run­ning more and more into peo­ple that per­ceive that many web sites are so heavy with Javascript that the site bogs down and bombs their web browser. It is my per­sonal belief that this is slightly skewed but it points out that many wish for sim­ple, fast sites. There are times when I