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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 […]
django + vim 1:59 pmI’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 […]
mogileFS for Django 11:28 pmIn 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 […]
In this week’s installment, we show you something simple but important: pagination. If you’ve ever seen those little numbers at the bottom of a Google Search, then you’re familiar with a paginated list: Now we’ll show you how we made a reusable paginator for different parts of Fluther. First we had to decide how it […]
“How’d they do that?” Real-time chat 8:45 amIn Erik’s last entry in the series, robmandu asked how we implemented the real-time chat. So, ask and ye shall receive! There are a lot of moving parts in the chat system, so I’m going to focus mostly on the back-end for this article — which allows me to show you one of my favorite […]
“How’d they do that?” Correcting punctuation 7:48 amIn my last post, I announced a new feature that automatically corrects the punctuation of questions using “fancy computer logic”. I’d like to reveal some of that computer logic, in the first in a series of blog posts where we explore the technology that drives Fluther.