Noemi Millman: Triopter: Category Archives for "web dev"

If you’ve done more than a little web development, you’ve probably encountered Payflow Pro, PayPal’s (previously Verisign’s) credit card processing solution.

It’s not supported on OS X.

But OS X is UNIX-y! There’s a version for Linux! Why won’t it work on OS X? Can’t you google for installation instructions?

Well, no. Perhaps my google-fu is weak, but I could find no information whatsoever about how to get it working.

In fact, if these guys hadn’t pointed out that it was possible, I would have given up then and there.

But I got it installed. And you can, …

I was home sick from work today, so once I felt well enough to crawl out of bed and sit in front of the computer, I decided to catch up a bit more on my Django.
Quick-n-Easy Comments
First thing I did was to replace the commenting system I’d created for my blog-app-in-progress with the commenting framework that comes for “free” with Django.  It’s not as fully featured as I might like, but it’s got some pretty nifty options, and is fairly easy to set up.  I figured I’d rather know how to use this than re-implement comments any time I …

I’ve said before that I’m only a moderately experienced programmer.  One of the things I’m enjoying about learning Django is that it’s challenging me to pick up new concepts without getting bogged down in the details of implementation.
Yesterday I ran across decorators.  I had no idea what a decorator is, how it works, or what it’s used for.  Wikipedia offers an overview, which at least explains the general purpose, but then someone tells me that Python decorators are not the same thing.  The top Google results fly way over my head, and finally, I land on an …