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Wrote up a post on how we use feature switches at Disqus within Django templates and views. (In the future we’ll be posting all of our tech over on the Dev section of the Disqus blog)

As many you of know I joined Disqus last month. This was a pretty big move for me, and definitely a great one. They have some amazing challenges, and the company has a great group of people willing to solve them. I’ve always been a big advocate of MySQL. Not because it’s the best relational [...]

Today I pushed out a slight overhaul to the UI (and functionality) of django-db-log. The 1.7 version set (use 1.7.1 as 1.7 had a couple minor issues). Here’s the brief changeset: Renders full debugging pages just like you’d see with Django (only for newly logged errors) under the new Messages admin. Supports logging full exceptions [...]

Yesterday an old colleague dropped me a message saying SC2 beta accounts had started to pop up. I was hopeful, but didn’t expect to get in right away. So, I jumped over to my Battle.net account, and to my surprise there it was. A few hours later I received an email from Blizzard as well: [...]

Today I’m going to talk a little bit about one of our hurdles, and a quick solution we came up with to get around it at iBegin. We needed the ability to override URLs per-site, which by itself is fairly easy. You simply change the ROOT_URLCONF in your local or per-site settings file. Let’s take [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]