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One of the common things we do across projects is paginate querysets and lists. Django happens to provide a base Paginator for us, but it’s usefulness is limited. It requires you to do the same repetitive tasks over and over. We’re one of those groups of people who believe that not every URL need’s to [...]

I haven’t made too many posts lately. Whether it’s been from lack of time, or simply nothing to write about who’s to say. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been keeping busy though.
We’ve been hard at work over at iBegin deploying some new architecture. It’s a pretty cool feat, but I can’t say too much about [...]

For a while now I’ve been wanting to rewrite Lifestream into a contained OO pattern. It seems to be the “best practice” when it comes to WordPress, but tutorials and what are not spread out so it took a bit of time.
During the process, I also took the opportunity to speed up certain areas, such [...]

Quite a while back I introduced basic JavaScript widgets on Nibbits. These let site owners embed a simple box on their own site which shows basic information, as well as a download link for their maps.
So, why am I posting about this? Simply to spread the word, and to demo it of course

One of the big things I’ve been talking about, and working on over the past couple of months (although I haven’t been working much on it), is our new Lifestream service. The goal is to simply create an open platform. A place where a user can sign up and add their feeds much like on [...]

In the Lifestream service I’ve been working on, I presented myself with the need to have some class abstraction, but not in the fashion which is available in Django models. I wanted to achieve a base class, which is stored in the database, and then child classes which simply override some methods. It turned out [...]

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 [...]

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 able [...]

I’ve been out of touch for a little over a month now as I’ve been transitioning from the west to east coast. I decided it would be “fun” to head back to my hometown for the summer, and fun it has been.
While looking for a place I had been using tethering on my AT&T network [...]

We have pushed out iBegin Share 2.3 (and wp plugin 1.2 to go along with it). It’s a pretty mild update, that includes one pretty cool new feature: Statistics. We’ve built in some quick stats to let you see how people are using the share plugin, on your blog, or standalone (although the WP integration [...]