Myles Braithwaite

When I first started developing this website I always wanted to release the source code. Over the months only a select few (the ones who emailed me and asked) have received any code. I have started to release the project slowly at Gitorious under the team Asgard Project. I also bought the domain asgardproject.org (nothing to see yet) for documentation.

My hope is that someone will find it useful.

Just published the new version of Django Basic Tumblelog to PyPi. With this release I decided to go with the "One Idea" methodology i.e. their is no Bookmarks, Videos, etc. Models anymore, just one Model called Post. I am working on some documentation that I hope to release by version 1.0.

At work I started developing a intranet, nothing to complicated just an address book, microblog, timesheet, and forum. I knew from the beginning of development I wanted to release the final project open source. But it was developed in the monolithic approach (one project for multiple ideas) so instead I am releasing one sentence ideas:

• django-blogs: A multi-person blog similar to MovableType.
• django-bugle: A microblog. (This isn't my originally code I forked it off Simon Willson's Bugle Project and made it a more portable application.)
• django-calendar: This is a fork of my Asgard Calendar.
• django-contacts: An address book application we are using to keep track of employee contact information.
• django-forums: A Django Forum application.
• django-issues: An issue tracker.
• django-projects: An internal project tracker.
• django-timecard: A timesheet without projects or issues.
• django-timesheet: A timesheet for projects, tasks, and issues.
• django-voting: An Apache Style voting application.

I still have to release django-voting, django-projects, django-forums, django-calendar, django-bugle, and django-blogs which will probably be some time next week and I also want to do a Pinax style release at the end of the month.

I released Django Basic Tumblelog 0.5 so you should definitely download it, the only really change is that I switched from the save() method in the model to the signals.

• Zip
• Tar.gz

Personal Site Redevelop

I have just started my new personal website which i am calling Comfy. It uses CouchDB for the document database store. I am hoping to lunch it in April of 2009. I am currently developing it in Django but there will be some other stuff mixed in there.

One large design flaw of this current site is the Tumblelog, where most of the work is being handled by one application instead of independent applications. An example of this is my Links are currently inside the Tumblelog application instead of an application called Links.

I also have an idea about Collections. Where I could store like information in a Categorical senses.

TLUG Board

At TLUG October meeting I was elected to the board.

Another thing.

It looks like the second Django Toronto meeting will be 4th November . So I am definitely going to be there.

And one last thing.

Just upgrade to Django 1.0.

*.arific.com was a project I started about a year ago to house some of really cool ideas I might have. Most of them haven’t really be published because doing the setup is to much work. Those in a effort to fix this I am moving everything (Email, Websites, Chat, and Project Management) to Google’s Cloud. Currently the only thing that is running on any of my servers is DNS and a redirect from `arific.com` to `www.arific.com`.

I am still working on killing bugs to get Django Photo Gallery to a beta release around the end of the month. But I have a few notes I wanted to post about some features that will be included in the beta and some that will be in the future.

1. I am working on getting Amazon S3 support setup this will be optional but highly recommended.
2. Some type of mobile posting, probably though a external pop3 mailbox.
3. Support for Google App Engine.
4. Watermark support.
5. Flickr sync.

I released version 0.1 of Django Basic Tumblelog in zip and gzip tar, if you interested please download a copy today.

I am currently working on a new project called Django Photo Gallery which is a port of Stopdesgin Movable Type Photo Gallery Templates to the Django python framework. I am working on it about an hour everyday to try and get it to a releasable state by the end of June.

If you are interested in contribution to the project please email me at me[at]mylesbraithwaite.com and I will add you to the subversion repository. If you don’t have any programming or design skills add a feature request.

P.S. I am trying to blog at-least five times a week now.

One of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) employees gives a really cool screencast about building better web applicaitons with scripting languages.

I have official moved from WordPress to Django.

There is still some minor things I have to complete like the Photos, Links, and Wiki but I have setup the redirects form my old blog site. I will be watching the 404 error to see if there are any problems. Hopefully this will be a smooth transition. Anyway I still need to do allot of work I want a global templatetags so it will be easier to link from all the applications. Another thing I would like to do is have a presentation section where they can be exported to PDF, S5, and the like. I am going to use Jacob Kaplan-Moss presentation section for inspiration.

I have already written three new entries here:

• Lighttpd vs. Apache with Static Content
• A Gentlemen’s Duel
• An OLPC is now at the linuxcaffe

This weekend I was really sick because for some reason our Air Conditioning wasn’t working and it got down to 15 degrees Celsius in the house. So I decided to play around with Django, I will hopefully talk more about this on Monday a little to tired right now.

Evaluating Web Development Frameworks: Rails and Django

Bright Green has relased and interesting paper comparing Rails and Django.