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Comment on Webfaction Review by Julien Desrosiers

Julien Desrosiers — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:42:28 +0000

“Webfaction has a method of breaking things down by domains, applications, and websites. Once you understand how it works, you will fall in love with the simplicity of the system!”
Cannot agree more. This kind of thing is rare on other webhosts that try to be user-friendly.

i love Webfaction. It’s so easy to host anything that is cool like Django or RoR. I hope that more webhosts will become like WebFaction.

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Auto Content Cash Review — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:38:53 +0000

Ive just been taking a closer look at Webfaction – they seem great value for just $5.50/month. Im currently using Host Monster and Host Gator – both work find but I really like the sound of Webfaction – I’ll definitely give it a go next time I need to add another host…

Comment on Mobile App on Subdomain with Django by Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:36:46 +0000

@Henrique: I didn’t want to mess with a middleware solution (I actually wrote sub-domain middleware that is posted in djangosnippets) mainly because I didn’t want to mess with setting up hosts in my test environment. I prefer to call the run server command for testing because on any given day I could be working on my app on a Ubuntu box, my Macbook Pro, or my Windows 7 box. I’m just too lazy to set up such a development environment in each.

@dryan: There are various options documented on the Internet on how to serve up the same views but modified for a mobile platform, but as I mentioned in the post, my mobile app is a different (dumbed down) app altogether. I didn’t want to use any of my views or templates from the original site, although this solution leaves to door open to do so.

Comment on One Click Django Project Publishing by Craig @ Instant Money Code Bonus

Craig @ Instant Money Code Bonus — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:02:07 +0000

I’ve read that Django was designed to be used in a newsroom situation…supposedly it is good for building applications although the very idea of doing so scares the heck out of me!

Comment on Mobile App on Subdomain with Django by dryan

dryan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:02:56 +0000

On chattarati.com I use a context processor to detect if the request is on the m. subdomain or not then set a base_template variable accordingly. All my templates {% extends base_template %}. In addition, it sets an is_mobile variable that I use inside the templates for any conditional differences I want to make (for instance we serve different css and resize images to a smaller dimension).

When a mobile visitor hits the site they are presented with a link at the top of the page to view this page on a mobile optimized version. If they click that, once at m. they are presented with another link letting them set a preference (via cookie) to always view the site in the mobile version. This way if they click a link on Twitter, etc. they get automatically redirected by a middleware class.

Not knowing your particular app, I don’t know why you want to present a different URL structure, but I would say to make sure that if a user manually types in a URL that it’s properly redirected. About two thirds of the links I click on Twitter on my phone take me to a site that redirects me to a mobile version but not to the article I was trying to get to because the URL structures don’t match. Finally, the UX guy in me has to mention to give your users a link to switch out of the mobile version. It should be their option to choose.

Comment on One Click Django Project Publishing by tzangms

tzangms — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:05:36 +0000

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Comment on Mobile App on Subdomain with Django by Henrique

Henrique — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:21:43 +0000

You can just serve your Django project right at the root domain, and have a Middleware check the subdomain the client used. If it’s www or whatever, you keep going. If it’s, let’s say, “mobile”, you can have your apps use a different set of templates, or redirect request to a different set of views intended for mobile version.

Comment on Windows 7 Releases October 22nd 2009 by andrew

andrew — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:02:21 +0000

Im using it right now & simply love the new appearance provided by it..I’ve never used vista before but so far that i heard, win7 is less resource-hogging..better than vista

although too bad, there are some old programs that i cant install on this new windows

Comment on Mobile App on Subdomain with Django by Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:17:11 +0000

@Julian: I’ve posted my mobile_settings.py file for you.

Comment on Mobile App on Subdomain with Django by Julian Pulgarin

Julian Pulgarin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:06:22 +0000

I’d be interested in what the mobile version of settings.py ends up looking like – please post it when you’re done!