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Jul
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 [...]
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Jun
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, [...]
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 [...]
