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。
One of the strengths of the Django framework is its emphasis on the Don't Repeat Yourself [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself] philosophy. From Wikipedia: > "The philosophy emphasizes that information should not be duplicated, because duplication increases the difficu…
Brandon Konkle
I've seen a lot of discussion lately about different strategies for developing and deploying Django applications. I wanted to share my current environment in the hopes that it might help someone new to Django or software development in general, and I was also hoping for some constructive critici…
Brandon Konkle
I implemented a few minor updates to the blog today that I wanted to spend a moment talking about. Redirects I added the django.contrib.redirects app to redirect requests for the old URLs from the Diario app to the new URLs under the Django Basic Blog app. I switched to Basic Blog about a month ago…
Brandon Konkle
I love Google's Picasa desktop application, and the ability to upload photos to the Picasa Web Albums site using the app is extremely useful. When I built my personal website using Django, I wanted a way to use Picasa Web Albums as a backend for my photos section so that I could take advantage o…
Brandon Konkle
For a long time now, I've been using Gedit + plugins as an integrated development environment. I recently began using SVN to manage version control, however, and I wasn't able to find a good SVN client plugin for Gedit. I decided to see what else was out there, and after much tweaking I deci…
Brandon Konkle