My first experience with “designing” web pages was in the early 90s. I was still in elementary school and HTML was the “big” thing; those were simpler times filled with gifs and <marquee>. Fast forward to the late 2000s…to say that web development technologies have “changed” would be an understatement. All of a sudden I [...]
First, a bit of news. Because of my prior experiences with Django, I’ve been contacted by the wonderful guys at Packt Publishing. They’ve been generous enough to offer me a first-hand preview of a new book, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery by Jonathan Hayward I’ll be doing a review of the book very soon, [...]
If you’re building a webapp that has user registration, you’ll probably want to keep track of various tidbits of user information such as: username, e-mail, city, country etc. Designing the registration page to take in a user’s name and e-mail is easy, just give them an input box and let them type whatever they want [...]
Edit: And of course, the obligatory Project Page entry here: http://www.pioverpi.net/projects/csc309-a3-kaantaa-translations/ Now that I’m done with exams I can start blogging and coding for fun again. Freedom! My first item on the tasklist was to deploy my CSC309 Django app (aka kääntää) on Bluehost. Google again was my friend, and I found a few resources [...]
When doing web development, you tend to lose a lot of flexibility regardless of the framework that you’re working with. You end up doing things the “Django-way” or the “RoR-way”. That became painfully clear to me this weekend while I was working on my CSC309 assignment. The Model Let’s say that you have a model [...]