There’s a new punk rocker in town and his name is Django James. He plays with a band called The Midnight Squires and they will be rocking out tomorrow (Thursday) at their first Manhattan performance at the Morrison Hotel (formerly the CBGB Gallery). For more information and to see a short film...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1928, a candle starts a fire in a French Gypsy caravan…the left hand of 18-year-old guitarist Django Reinhardt is badly burned, leaving two fingers useless…with his right leg also injured, Django is bedridden for 18 months and uses ...

Phew…good summer folks. So good, that I haven’t worked on a single side project since June. ChiPy ignored, Tastebud ignored…just about everything, unless it was work or named Wil & Camri, totally, epically, ignored. Now that the temperature is dropping faster than the leaves, ...

I posted about it on Twitter this afternoon, but I finally succumbed to the FriendFeed trend and I’m going to let them do the hard work of aggregating my life stream and normalizing it. Honestly, I don’t need to fight the never-ending battle of scraping and parsing a billion feeds when a...

Rob LoftHouse just announced on his Twitter that DjangoCon 2008 will be taking place at the GooglePlex (that’s Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters) on September 6th and 7th! Woo! Rob also indicates that a Djangoproject.com posting will be up soon. The official post ...

I’m flooding the site with Django stuff lately, but I’ve had a recent burst of productivity that I attribute almost solely to my reading of James Bennett‘s new book, Practical Django Projects . This particular project isn’t completely done yet, but it mostly works. I just nee...

One of the big downfalls of storing bits of templates in your database is that you’re limited to HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Individuals editing flatpages can’t use template filters or other bits of Django’s awesome templating language. Usually this doesn’t make much sense, but...

I just whipped together another really simple Django application I call django-google-analytics that simplifies the process of inserting Google Analytics tags into your Django projects. Why did I create this? I manage a lot of Django projects that present slightly-different forms to users ...

Here’s another one that I’ve yanked out of a project. I call it RestrictMiddlware and it is a real simple, and really easily bypassed “security” mechanism. Like most security, it’s just security theater, but some clients make it so hard to enable true security that you&...

Happy July 4th!  Now, with that out of the way… My sister Tania was at the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating competition today.  She was happy with the result, I was rooting for Kobayashi.  Oh well.  My roommate was rather disgusted by the whole thing.  Me?  I found myself REALLY wanting a h...