Primer for Switching Shells in 2021
Note: This post has been sitting on the shelf for over 1.5 years, since early 2020. Some things are a bit less new than when written, but everything should still be fairly relevant. Enjoy ...
Review: IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk
Disclaimer: This is not a review unit (I bought it) & IKEA is not paying me (or even aware I am producing this review). There are no affiliate links here, I was already a standing desk ...
Haystack & Tastypie Orgs
As of today, I pulled the trigger on something I should've done long ago. Both Tastypie & Haystack now have full GitHub organizations.
Contributors on both sides have been doing a great job maintaining them ...
Django Dash & WSGI Wrestle Cancelled
Unfortunately, I'm officially cancelling the Django Dash & WSGI Wrestle for 2014. It's been delayed numerous times & there frankly isn't enough time left in the year for them to happen. There are a ...
The State of Tastypie
I received an email this past week from someone evaluating RESTful frameworks for a near future project. Justifiably, they were concerned about whether choosing Tastypie would be a liability or not for them. I sent ...
"Going Home"
Going "Home"
As of March 17, I'm leaving REDACTED, by my choice after just over a year. I'll be packing up the family & we're going to be moving (back) to Lawrence, KS ...
The WSGI War Wants YOU!
This year, I'm starting a new competition for Python web developers called the WSGI War. I've been running the Django Dash for seven years now & have been frequently told that people wish there ...
Django Dash - Registration Soon! (And Sponsors Needed)
This year's Django Dash is coming up quick, so I wanted to announce some things as a reminder.
For those who aren't familiar with it, the Django Dash is a 48-hour programming competition ...
New Committers for Tastypie & Haystack
A couple months ago, I posted a blog entry asking for help with Tastypie & Haystack. I was burnt-out, facing lots of upheaval & frustrated by my inability to keep up with all the issues/PRs that ...
In Memory Of Malcolm
Last night, I received the news that Malcolm Tredinnick had passed away. I was at the hotel bar, concluding the first night of sprints at PyCon 2013. It took everything I had not to spontaneously ...
Committers Needed For Tastypie & Haystack
TL;DR I'm stepping back from Tastypie & Haystack soon and am looking for 3-7 people per project to step up & help take over.
Tastypie and Haystack have both grown far more than I ever ...
The Making Of The "Getting Started With Django" Music
For Kenneth Love's new "Getting Started With Django" series, I wrote an original song for the intro/outro. Not sure it's worth a long post, but I thought I'd write up a ...
So Long & Thanks For All The Fish
As of December 31st, 2012 (& barring something amazing), Toast Driven will be shutting down. We want to take the opportunity to thank all of our clients from over the almost two years for their patronage ...
DjangoCon 2012 Slides For "API Design Tips"
I gave a talk today at DjangoCon 2012 on API design tips. The goal was to help other programmers frame how they think about programming, especially in the code they share with others (commercially, open-source ...
Announcing Django Dash 2012
This year has been a busy one for Toast Driven, your Django Dash hosts. In addition to the pace Daniel keeps, I (Ben Spaulding), have joined Toast Driven. With all the goings-on we were unable ...
Please Welcome... Ben Spaulding
Ben Spaulding will be joining Toast Driven in two weeks as our gentlemanly "Web Craftsman".
Designer by nature, Ben's been in the Django world for number of years, flexing his chops on a variety ...
Please Welcome... Nate Bunnyfield
Nate Bunnyfield will be joining Toast Driven next week as our illustrious "Maker of Many Things".
Though he's most recently a Rails expatriat, he's was in Python Land as of 1998 (Python hipster ...
Now Hiring: An Awesome Designeloper! (Updated)
Update (2012/05/14): Hiring for this position is now closed, as it has been filled.
Hm, is the correct term "designeloper"? "Devinger"? "Pixel-pushing, code-smashing, half-(wo)man/half monster"? Regardless, Toast Driven is now ...
Gevent, Long-Polling & You
A big focus lately (as far as web technology trends go) is the move to "real-time". "Real-time" is a loaded terms that can mean a lot of things to different people, but what is consistent ...
Haystack 1.2 Released
Haystack 1.2 was released yesterday (PyPI). It ships with n-gram (autocomplete) support for Solr & Whoosh, compatibility with Whoosh 1.8.X & a host of bugfixes. You can find more details on the mailing list ...