Entries published in 2006

62 entries published in this year. See also: full archive.

December

• Merry Christmas — December 24
• I can’t believe it’s not XML! — December 21
• Sniffle — December 18
• Status update — December 10

November

• My site is smarter than I am — November 22
• Django tips: get the most out of generic views — November 16
• Comment problems — November 12
• Programming tips: learn optimization strategies — November 5
• Django tips: auto-populated fields — November 2

October

• Python tips: don’t be too concise — October 28
• That’s not Popper! — October 25
• The Prestige — October 22
• Django and NIH — October 21
• How I got here — October 16
• Heads up — October 11
• The functional language that’s right under your nose — October 11

September

• Django tips: laying out an application — September 10
• Django tips: documentation and resources — September 4
• Tool Wars — September 3
• Django tips: user registration — September 2
• Friday fun — September 1

August

• The Rules — August 29
• The best of all worlds — August 29
• A Web 2.0 service idea — August 28
• Let’s talk about accessibility — August 25
• Trying something new — August 20
• A modest proposal — August 19
• Some long-overdue cleaning — August 19
• I’m going to predict this now — August 18
• Django tips: using properties on models and managers — August 18
• Quick note for pydelicious users — August 15
• Let’s talk about frameworks, security edition — August 13
• Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 2 — August 5

July

• Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 1 — July 31
• Apropos of even less — July 25
• Apropos of nothing — July 24
• Helpers, scaffolding, tradeoffs and other stuff — July 17
• Django tips: Hacking FreeComment — July 16
• Independence Day — July 4
• JavaScript, ORM and “hiding SQL” — July 4
• Django tips: scaling an application — July 3
• Django and AJAX — July 2

June

• Essentialism — June 30
• Django tips: the difference between ‘blank’ and ‘null’ — June 28
• Levels of openness knowledge — June 25
• Let’s talk about Python and Ruby — June 18
• Upgrading to Ubuntu 6.06 — June 16
• Django tips: Template context processors — June 14
• How Django processes a request — June 13
• Let’s talk about frameworks: When frameworks aren’t right — June 10
• Installing the GIMP — June 8
• Django tips: Write better template tags — June 7
• Django tips: extending the User model — June 6
• Templating languages redux — June 5
• Let’s talk about frameworks, DBA edition — June 4
• Let’s talk about frameworks, programmer edition — June 3

May

• Let’s talk about frameworks, designer edition — May 31
• Let’s talk about frameworks — May 30
• Why templating languages aren’t a bad idea — May 24
• Django, gzip and WSGI — May 21
• The Google Web Toolkit — May 21
• And away we go — May 18