(My apologies this rant is long and should probably be called “The EA Nightmare“)
As many of you are aware, yesterday was the launch of one of the more anticipated games this year: The Sims 3. So, being a typical gamer, I had to pick it up (and the fact that my girlfriend is nuts about [...]

One issue we had come up over at iBegin lately, is the fact that GZipMiddleware tries to encode ALL responses (with a few minor exceptions). In our cases, we sometimes stream actual binary files over the response. Doing this with the standard middleware causes a unicode error as it’s trying to encode all of the [...]

Most of our projects lately are now using JSON data storage in the database. This makes it very efficient for storing additional data without having to run alters are gigantic data sets. It also allows us to store different data for different kinds of sets within the same table.
Doing this in Django we originally created [...]

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 [...]

This is mostly a note to myself, but also since my blog is very helpful to fellow Google-users I figured I’d throw it up here publicly.
Today I needed to update a package on PyPi using setuptools:
python setup.py sdist register upload
The problem was, no matter what I did, I always seemed to get this error:
Upload failed [...]

A while back I posted a quick, and very simplistic guide to setting up django-sphinx within your project. Since that time we’ve gained a lot of use of the platform. It came to my attention today that the django-nyc group was going to do a presentation on how to setup sphinx within your Django project. [...]

One of the many things we do to help optimize our website load times is optimize the frontend by setting far-futures headers. This simply means that media has an Expires tag of sometime in the distant future (maybe a year), and when we make changes, the filename needs to change. The easiest way to do [...]

As many users like myself probably have noticed, Apple seriously fucked us with their latest security release. From what I’ve read, they reverted Perl to an older version which doesn’t support some common features.
I began receiving errors such as the following with fink and other applications:

IO object version 1.22 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.23
Storable [...]

So today I went ahead and cleaned up my UUIDField implementation. Originally it was just based off of a snippet. I wanted to swap it over to use a BINARY column in MySQL, after reading on how FriendFeed had been using UUIDs. Due to using Django however, you can’t use binary data or BLOB columns [...]

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