Removing some dust

After sufficient embarrassment, I have finally forced myself to updatethe site. In addition to a visual overhaul, I’ve updated the codebase to use Django 1.3, and brought in a lot of the pieces of our stack we use at DUO Interactive.

I’ve also made the updated source for this site available in its entirety on GitHub. As a disclaimer, I don’t have the time or will to support the codebase, and it’s mostly there just so I can get this thing under version control. Perhaps it will be of use to someone as an example, though.

Django + Postgres 9 experiences?

Postgres 9 has been out for a while, tempting me with some what appearto be great improvements. I’ve been considering using it for a Django project, but wasn’t sure if there’d be much improvement from the 8.4 currently packaged with the Ubuntu Server 10.10 we deploy on.

For those who have already used Django + Postgres 9: What do you think so far? Any measurable gains in performance? Anyone played with the new replication stuff yet?

I’ll leave this pretty open-ended, comment away.

Django work available

A quick tip for anyone with time to spare: The company I work for, DUOInteractive, LLC, is in need of some extra Djangonauts for some small to mid-sized projects. The work is payable on an hourly basis, and can scale up or down based on availability. Most of the projects are for the Ligonier Ministries site, which sees about 10,000 visitors a day.

Those with a firm understanding of Python/Django (and some free time) may send resumes to jobs@duointeractive.com.

django-eve-db is Ready to Roll

While by no means at all ready to be deemed “mature”, django-eve-dbis now at a state that I feel fine about announcing its presence to the wider Python/Django community.

django-eve-db is a set of Django models that wrap CCP’s EVE Online data dump. This makes it extremely easy to query the dump and rapidly develop software around it. Little to no SQL is required for many usage cases.

I could really use some help testing the models, importers, and admin classes. If you are a current or potential EVE Online developer, I encourage you to take a peek. If you’d like to hear discussions and announcements about the project, see our mailing list.

python-colormath 1.0.6 Released

Thanks to liushie, a math domain error was caught in the CIE1994 and CMCcolor difference methods. This only manifested itself for certain CIELab values, and went unnoticed as a result of this. The problems have been corrected and released as 1.0.6.

Please see the project page for more details on what python-colormath, how to install it, and how to use it. This is unlikely to interest you if you are not looking to do some kind of color math.