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

Well, I’ve built a basic blog application in Django, complete with comments (and comment moderation), categories, and date-based archives, that would actually be presentable on a public-facing website. It took a total of about 8 hours, and I’m very impressed with the framework.

My previous praise of the documentation was a little premature. The docs are a thousand times more approachable than RoR’s, and better categorized and stuff. But they’re very lacking in descriptions of syntax, or real-world examples, and in a few cases are out of date.

I spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to get …

One of my favorite WordPress plugins is WP-SlimStat, which allows you to track blog traffic in real time, and even if you don’t have access to raw log files and a log analysis software package.

Now, although SlimStat installed and ran without a hiccup on a couple of other blogs I administer, when I tried to add it to Triopter, it completely borked my blog, aborting the rendering of any page after the first post heading and before the content. The SlimStat dashboard panel was also coming up empty.

A few other people on the author’s blog had reported …

Now that I’ve moved this domain from its old host, which was hacked, and then unresponsive, and in general not very satisfactory, it’s time to actually make something of it.

I was going to apply a design that I’ve been working on, but then I realized that the logo I was working with bore an uncanny resemblance to the Adidas logo, and that I’d better start over. Oops.

So this is a completely fresh start, …