Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
I was looking around for an easy way to split lists of items into columns in a way that the number of items in each column would be less than or equal to the number of items in the first column. This prevents a final column with several more items than the others. I came across an old post from Ann…
Brandon Konkle
This week I finished up the initial release of Django-Reporter [http://github.com/bkonkle/django-reporter], my first open-source project based on work I've done for my full-time employer, Pegasus News. At Pegasus we send daily, weekly, and monthly email reports out to several people. We have a q…
Brandon Konkle
Back in February, I posted an entry [http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2009/feb/16/ajax-django-comments-jquery/] about adding Ajax functionality to the built-in comments app. I always intended to go back and improve this method, but didn't get the chance until now. Yesterday I decided to take anothe…
Brandon Konkle
I've been working on a project using the excellent Pinax platform, and I wanted to share some of the tricks I use to make it easier to work with. You can find out more about Pinax by visiting their site [http://pinaxproject.com/]. I'm working with their recent 0.7beta3 release, so if you'…
Brandon Konkle
Back in November, I posted a detailed entry [http://adoleo.com/blog/2008/nov/18/my-django-dev-test-and-production-environs/] about the environments I used to develop, test, and deploy my Django applications. Since then, I've made a lot of changes to my configuration that I feel have helped boos…
Brandon Konkle