Today I was working to continue to improve my website and came across some really helpful stuff to improve the Django admin. By default, the django admin has a really simple interface for managing objects in your database. For example, the page for managing my Pages looks like this This works and is much nicer than having to build my own admin, but there is a lot more power hidden in Django...
I have recently moved away from PHP and begun working with more all-purpose languages, Python being the main one. While experimenting with this new language, I rewrote my blog to use the Python web framework Django. Django 1.7 with Python 3.x is not supported by default on Dreamhost's shared servers, so here is how I installed my own custom version of Python to deploy my app. In this tutorial I...
Yesterday I was looking around for a way to easily populate a database to test out some of my code. Instead of sitting there for hours punching out tons of random stuff, I decided that there had to be a better way. That's when I ran across Faker.Faker (on Github) is a PHP library the aims to make creating fake data fro testing purposes super, super easy.The easiest way to install faker is via comp...
Its late, and I can't fall asleep, so I'm coding!The other day I started playing around with python some more and took a look at gtk and webkit. GTK is a gui thing (Idk what else to call it) for Python, like Swing is to Java. It comes installed on most linux systems and is pretty nice. Webkit is a nice little library for interfacing wiht websitesWhat so these two things combined create? A browser!...
NOTE: I no longer use Medoo, or PHP for this site So the other day (When I was completely rewriting this site), I was looking for a better way to deal with my databases. Particularly, a more secure and easy way to retrieve data from my databases. During my scouring of the Internet, I came across Medoo. Medoo is a simple php database framework that makes is really easy to run queries. It has a d...
The other day I decided I was going to start to learn a PHP Framework. There are tons out there, but I decided I'd like to learn Laravel. By far, the hardest part of getting everything installed and configured, was getting composer installed on my Dreamhost shared server, so I thought I'd show my solution (to help you, and me when I need to do this again :P)First off, you need to make sure that yo...