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Open Source Repositories Have moved 12 May 2011 | 05:47 am
We’ve moved our repositories yet again! First we hosted our repositories here on opensource.washingtontimes.com, then we moved them to http://github.com/washingtontimes. We’ve decided to move the proj...
Finding which python packages are out-of-date 9 Apr 2011 | 06:59 am
As your projects get bigger, they collect more and more packages. It can be a chore keeping track of which packages have been updated to fix potential bugs. We have that issue and devised a simple scr...
4 Lessons learned about multivariate testing 26 Jan 2011 | 03:41 am
Recently we did our first major multivariate test on a page using Google Website Optimizer (GWO). Our goal was to increase reader involvement by having them go to any other page on our web site. There...
Finding Out-of-Sync Packages Across Servers with Fabric 2 Dec 2010 | 02:39 am
We have several servers that are supposed to have the same packages installed, but often get out of sync due over time. To make it easier to find these out-of-sync packages and servers, I wrote a quic...
App-Centric Django Development Part 2: App Factory 29 Nov 2010 | 07:37 am
Make it easy Django makes it easy to start an app with the command ./manage.py startapp. However the app template that it creates is very simple and it creates it within the current project. We need ...
App-Centric Django Development Part 1: Introduction 24 Nov 2010 | 02:10 am
We’ve created many web sites at The Washington Times, many were just speculative, and most are not around today. In order to prototype a web site quickly, we developed a set of habits that make it eas...
Django Alphabet Filter Released with International Character Support 29 Jul 2010 | 03:28 am
My previous post about the alphabet filter explained the first take at creating the alphabet filter. There were several issues, especially with international character sets, so we have revised the cod...
Creating an Alphabetical Filter in Django's Admin 16 Jul 2010 | 01:47 am
Update: See the new blog post about the updated version. Django’s admin includes a great date hierarchy filter for navigating date data in a model. I’ve come into a few situations where it would be n...
Loading Templates Based on Request Headers in Django 18 Feb 2010 | 07:08 am
We have been experimenting with A/B testing using Google’s Website Optimizer. The tool is very nice, but we ran into issues with A/B testing in pages with dynamic content. Website Optimizer is really...
How we create and deploy sites fast with virtualenv and Django 9 Jan 2010 | 09:54 am
A commenter on my last post was curious how we use virtualenv to deploy sites and how it is helpful. It goes a bit deeper than that. There are a few parts that make everything work. Pieces of the puz...
