Here is a "new and shiney" presentation for running Django on Jython. It's based on my experiences with the DjangoJython tutorial.

As is discussed in the slide deck, and hence the subtitle of the presentation, much could be helped by more careful reading of documentation. Well, moments ago, I decided that I hadn't checked out django-jython 1.1. Well.... turns out many more problems could have been helped by using this later version. Sweet!

At Sort 2009, a technical conference at the LDS Church, I gave a presentation on my favorite all-in-one web framework, Django. It's a great tool, and here's a look at the slides produced to accompany my presentation. Also, checkout bitbucket for the source code for the demo project.

Sometimes you need to install a security certificate for authentication to work for certain services -- services that are accessed by your java application that requirement a secure connection. For instance, needing to authenticate against an LDAP server from one of our apps, we had to run a little InstallCert.java on all JDKs used to run the app.

django-admin.py is a utility script that is used by django to start projects, etc. Sometimes, it seems that it's available to me in the terminal. At other times, it melts away, unavailable. So, where is it, and how do I make it findable?

The amount of content on the blog and its pages has become substantial (in length only) enough to make it a worthwhile idea to paginate it (spread the content over multiple pages). Django makes it very easy! There are some nice objects available for paginating.

My friend Josh has told me numerous times that Django is much easier to work with on Linux. Basically things are easier if you know how to do them. Whether things are easier to learn or not on Linux compared to other OS's is debatable. But, on this point anyway, it seems that Linux and Django really play well together.

I really need an answer to this question. Why? Because I was, until recently, on the verge of shutting down the comments on the site because of the load of blog spam that I was receiving. It was insufferable. But, luckily, Django came to my rescue again and made a potential solution very pain-free -- except for one problem.

Here are some high-level highlights on what I did to get code highlighting working for the blog. The blog runs on python/django, so this is a very pythonic solution -- which, I have to say, is not a bad solution.

The site has a new section. What is it for? Basically, it's to sequester all those things, as a nerd, I would like to post about (the latest custom tag I've written or the latest problem with a bit of 3rd-party code, or to just ramble on about technology-related topics.