Monthly Archives: September 2007

AirPress

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Chris Heisel

AirPress This could be interesting. I like MarsEdit, but I wish I could write and save a draft to my server, so I could start a post at work at lunch and finish up at home.

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Facebook + AIM = evil

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Chris Heisel

To the 105 people I spammed today via IM while playing with Facebook… my humble apologies. That was way evil of me, and I’d say slightly evil of facebook to offer… in what universe do folks want IM spam? So … Continue reading →

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The Black Wire and the White Wire

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Chris Heisel

The Black Wire and the White Wire On the tension between "traditional" IT, that needs to be less risk averse, and the innovative, risk taking groups found in many companies. I like to think my group is on the white … Continue reading →

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One thing I absolutely love about Django’s template loading

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Chris Heisel

Is the ability to specify a series of template folders in [your settings file](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/#template-dirs). Here’s what we do at [work](http://www.ajc.com): TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), “templates”), os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), “..”, “ANOTHERSITE”, “templates”)), ) It allows us to easily share templates from ANOTHERSITE with … Continue reading →

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Send SMS from Django applications

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Chris Heisel

Send SMS from Django applications A nice easy wrapper around turning a user’s cell phone number into an SMS-addressable e-mail address.

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