EC2 has a great feature in allowing you to associate an Elastic IP with different server instances. This basically means that if you switch servers for whatever reason you can simply tell the old IP (that your domain is pointed to) to now refer to the new server. This saves the need to change your [...]
Archive for March, 2009
18 Mar
How to Port Many Django Utilities Backwards
Socialbrowse is currently running on Django trunk revision 7859 which is sometime before Django released version 1.0 along with several backwards incompatibility changes. We use several common Django utilities which often don’t work at the moment with our version of Django. We could port our whole app forward, which we’ll of course eventually do but [...]
13 Mar
Adding Custom Commands to manage.py and django-admin.py
In Django it is very straight forward to add extra commands to the manage.py and django-admin.py scripts. The Django Documentation describes the process but gives no examples. I like examples so I’m writing this for others. In the past I’d add these to make stand alone scripts that used the Django libraries. from django.conf import [...]
10 Mar
Wundrbar makes a Wundrful iPhone App
I have a lot of cool friends and a lot of other friends who try to be cool by owning iPhones. To those people I want to advertise a cool new App that was released in the store today by a few friends of mine: Wundrbar Its called Wundrbar and basically gives you one click [...]
9 Mar
WordPress Domain Change
For a long time I’ve had this site at thingsilearned.wordpress.com and have had the domain thingsilearned.com simply re-directing to the blog. Today I decided what the heck, I’ll skip dinner and instead spend the 10 bucks to have thingsilearned.com be the actual blog domain. WordPress makes this fairly straight forward though one step was confusing [...]
3 Mar
Tripeedo – Flight Search That’s Actually a Search
A couple brilliant friends of mine have recently launched a service called Tripeedo. Its based off technology they built for Wundrbar.com and basically makes flight search actually a search. Current “flight searches” are less of a search and more of a painful process of filling out extensive forms. You have to click and specify where [...]
