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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We released new versions of iBegin Share and the WordPress plug-in this morning. These are critical updates to solve display inconsistencies across browsers. You can grab them both over at the labs. If you don’t know what iBegin Share is, it’s a simple tool which allows you to “share” pages of your website. It’s very [...]

Last week I made the decision to begin the conversion from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Well, more of a benchmark conversion, but none the less. So we begin the installation.. I installed PostgreSQL server, version 8.2, painlessly both locally and on our staging server. I then installed psycopg2 via Python setuptools. Nice, quick and easy, right? [...]

We’ve launched our first new site over at iBegin, and it’s called Places. It’s an experiment in mapping informal spaces, or outlining landmarks and other types of locations that you wouldn’t normally find on a map. The framework was built in about a week, and is powered by Django, MySQL, the Jinja templating engine, and [...]

Today we released iBegin Share v2.10, a complete rewrite to the original, iBox v2.11, and WordPress plug-in’s to go along with each of them (see Share below this post).

One of my first projects at the new company has been updating a script called iBox. Most people are familiar with the concept, that of lightbox, as well as how inefficient most of the scripts are. The goal of iBox is simple: provide a lightweight modal dialog box with additional support for document types to [...]