Web Development
Mastering Django (part 1)
Motivation
I first attempted to learn how to use Django a little less than a year after it was first released, in the summer of 2006 when I was 19 years old. Young and still finding my footsteps with Python I, like many other Django users, grew tired of creating slightly different web application frameworks for [...]
RyanKaskel.com Internet Consulting is no more!
There use to be a small link at the top of this page that led you to an unfinished, ghost town of a site called RyanKaskel.com Internet Consulting. I intended it to be a “catch all” company that would provide casual small business (or users of any type) users who wanted a web presence or [...]
I’ve Been a Bit Busy Lately, but Here are Some Python/Django Project Updates
I’ve been a bit busy lately, between schoolwork and web design but here are the latest updates…
django-staticpages version 0.10 will be released on Sunday night – Since I’ve been working on a client’s project, several new use cases for the Django application have been recognized. The biggest change will be in the ordering of Menu [...]
Model Development Tips for Django Projects
In this post I want to present a few tips for Django model development that have turned out to be quite useful for my own projects. But first I want to pause and ask my readers a simple question (skip this digression if you care only about the title’s subject :
Do you capitalize all [...]
Wordpress theme changes and Google Analytics: How to successfuly migrate
A few weeks ago I changed the theme of my Wordpress instance. Like many Wordpress users, I employ the incredible magic of Google Analytics and this web application is fucking sweet (excuse my French but I’ve decided since this is my blog, and I am me, I will talk straight to my readers, to whom [...]
Using third party applications in your Django project
There are plenty of complicated ways to manage third party applications (using svn:externals, zc.buildout, PIP, etc.) but I like to keep things simple and I’ve “crafted” an easy way to include third-party applications on a project by project basis. Now this solution assumes a few basic prerequisites and the first will probably turn off a [...]
Django-staticpages version 0.9.2 now live on Google Code
I really love Django and the contrib section but for me the flatpages application fell short with some of the features I wished it included. So I built a replacement called django-staticpages that enables menus to be created alongside staticpages (as well as Links for external links that you would like to list in the [...]
Why I will never write code for a social networking site or mobile phone or AIR, etc.
First off let me clarify what I mean by the title and start off by mentioning that I have only looked at the APIs I talk about and as the post implies, never actually written code using them.
I’ve only taken a few programming courses and most of my knowledge of computers comes from the vast [...]
A word to all SugarCRM Community Edition 5.2.0X users trying to upgrade
Maybe it’s just me forgetting the steps I take to update my copy of the excellent SugarCRM 5.2 but I thought I would write a little on how to upgrade SugarCRM Community Edition because I forget how every time and maybe I’m not the only one .
If you’re the administrator and logged into Sugar [...]
Educational projects formalized
In the course of this blog, I have started several projects that are educational in nature. These include:
Rethinking Witchcraft: Revisionist History from an evolutionary bioligcal perspective – http://ryankaskel.terapad.com/
Ryan’s Swahili Verb List – http://swahiliverbs.ryankaskel.com/
RyanKaskel.com Educational Software (my newest project) – http://edusoft.ryankaskel.com/
Please visit these sights. They reveal a lot of my internal beliefs. I am also a [...]
