Archive for the 'Technical' Category

How’d they do that? Breaking the server.

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Some of you may have noticed the hour that Fluther was down this afternoon. I thought I’d give you a little insight into what we’ve been I’ve been up to while Bacio fiddles the bits on the server.
Not wanting anyone to accuse us of not running with the cool kids, I decided to implement a […]

django + vim

Friday, October 17th, 2008

I’ve finally weaned myself off Komodo, since the vim bindings had just enough tiny errors to annoy me, and I was never satisfied with how long it took to find and open a file inside the project.
The one thing I was really missing in vim, though, was solid code-completion feature. After much haranguing, I finally […]

mogileFS for Django

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

In preparation for DjangoCon, I thought I’d release a little bit of quickly-written-code (read: easily improvable!) that we use to serve our avatars on Fluther.
Here’s the basic rundown:

Get mogilefs on your box
Patch django to support different FileBackends
Get data into mogile
Get data out of mogile

Getting mogile
We use Ubuntu on our production boxes, and it just so […]