Gmail is a frequently used SMTP host for Django apps. Its free and relatively simple to setup which is ideal for small apps. There are a few significant downfalls. First, its limited to 500 emails a day with no option to upgrade. Second, it limits and even re-writes all outgoing emails to the username of [...]
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11 Aug
Socialbrowse in the StarTribune
Yesterday I was on the cover of the Business section of the StarTribune. Its a nice article that talks a bit about Socialbrowse and my path to what I’m doing right now. It also talks about Luke Francl and his awesome startup FanChatter which is also from Minnesota and also in YCombinator. Here is a [...]
8 May
Testing AJAX Requests in Django
Django has a really handy function on the request object that will determine if the request was an AJAX request (an XMLHttpRequest). request.is_ajax() It simply checks whether the HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH header is equal to ‘XMLHttpRequest’, a standard that’s supported by most javascript libraries. You can read more about it and see the list of supporting frameworks [...]
14 Apr
Socialbrowse On The News
It happened a few weeks ago and we mentioned it on the Socialbrowse Blog but I feel like mentioning it here as well. Socialbrowse was covered on the News! Zack and I were interviewed by Ali Lucia and were really pleased with the coverage. Unfortunately I can’t embed the video in this wordpress blog so [...]
12 Apr
Wanted: Generous Blog Designer
I’m currently doing a lot of research and experimenting in Marketing as its my weakest skill as a startup founder. I want to make it one of my strengths, or at least become moderately good at it. One of the marketing tools I’m going to be experimenting with is this blog. To do that I [...]
6 Apr
Paper or Plastic?
I’m probably the last person to look this up but I’ve often wondered what the best answer to “Paper or Plastic?” really is. The best answer ofcourse is neither. I should bring my own bags, but I rarely preform ideally so that aside what’s the best? It seems like paper would be more environmentally friendly [...]
25 Mar
EC2 Elastic IPs SSH Error
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
