One of the optimizations (if you want to call it that) that can be done for decreased load-time on a web page, is removing excess white space. In many of our pages at iBegin this saved as much as 100kb. While not every site has some of the 300kb pages that we have, it can [...]
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Tonight I finally took the chance to finish up the sidebar widgets in LifeStream, and I think everyone who’s been waiting for them will be satisfied. The widget allows you to place one or more, using the dynamic widgets feature which is in WordPress, for any supporting themes. Each widget let’s you customize the title, [...]
As many of you know, I’ve been working on things over at iBegin for the past 6 months. One of the things we did was a complete rewrite of our platform which includes a local business listings directory. While doing this, I had the goal in mind to make it as scalable as possible, and [...]
I’ve been thinking about an interesting concept, and potential project lately. Most blogs have a “Blogroll”, or a list of other blogs that are typically friends or colleagues. A lot of these bloggers also subscribe to those blogs with RSS readers, or whatever tool suits them. My concept was to socialize this aspect of the [...]
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How Things Have Changed
The last few weeks have had a lot of work related to SEO/SEM both at iBegin and on random sites of my own, like Nibbits. On iBegin we’ve been tweaking our robots handling, meta descriptions, and titles, all to try and get the most out of Google. We’ve also found we’ve needed to do much [...]
So we’ve been pushing live some changes the last few days over at iBegin. The biggest one is our brand new Django-powered website. The reason I bring this up, is to show all the haters out there, that Django really can scale well if you’ve designed your architecture properly from the get-go. We haven’t been [...]
For most of my sites, and for iBegin especially, we rely heavily on our database. Today we went through a distro upgrade for the database server, and it occurred to me, that we had no good solution for handling these kinds of situations (auto-magically even). I quickly through up a middleware which takes (MySQL only) [...]
One of the projects that I’ve been spending a lot of time with is the django-debug-toolbar. It was started off by Rob Hudson, and since has had huge amounts of support. While my fork is quite a ways off of Rob’s, they’re both quite useful in their own right. To clear up one very annoying [...]
The author of Jinja, an alternative solution to Django templates, made a great post about what is wrong with the Django template engine. It’s a great read if you have any doubts that the philosophy behind Django’s template engine makes sense. The truest quote of them all: I like the custom tag system in Django, [...]
Recently I’ve been incorporating alternative techniques to Captcha to prevent automated form submission on websites, which is typically spam, or something else you don’t want happening. I added our routines to the new iBegin’s submission system today, and thought that I’d share with the world what we’re doing. I’m also curious as to what everyone [...]
