Mobile App on Subdomain with Django

I’ve noticed a fairly common pattern arising with mobile and iPhone versions of websites using sub-domains. Clicky is an excellent example of this. They provide an iPhone version of their site at i.getclicky.com and a generic mobile version at m.getclicky.com.
I want to create something similar for Inzolo.com. I assumed that Django, with all its awesomeness [...]

March 3, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet  5 Comments

Django cron on Webfaction

James Bennett addresses one of the most frequently asked questions in Django – “How do I write a standalone script which makes use of Django components?”
That is what I needed to do. I’m still learning Python so I wasn’t sure why the methods he described in his article didn’t work for me. (OK, I have [...]

July 31, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet  11 Comments

Django & Djson… er, JSON

I must admin this is my first attempt at even using JSON. I wanted to produce some data that I could consume with jQuery and I figured JSON was the best format for the job.
I found Django has a method for serializing Model query sets easily and it seemed to work just fine.
The problem I [...]

May 21, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet  7 Comments

Setting up Django on a WHM/cPanel VPS (LiquidWeb)

I ordered a new VPS from LiquidWeb for the purpose of using it to host our company’s new product that I’m currently writing in Django. I have another VPS with LiquidWeb and I highly recommend them!
I got Django up and running on my other server with some help of LiquidWeb support. This time I’m going [...]

September 25, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet  2 Comments