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Blogging at Monty Lounge Now

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:24:21 -0000

With the release of Django-Mingus I now have a new home for me to blog. Check it out.

Twitter me this

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:26:07 -0000

I always had "other" plans for howiworkdaily, so I'm moving my blog and twitter over to my company identity... Monty Lounge Industries. Although I'm currently employed full-time, montylounge is my own personal "career" brand, if you will. Follow me on twitter at @montylounge while I begin the migration of both my blog and other things. Howiworkdaily still has a few tricks up its sleeve long term.

Findjango redesign

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:25:26 -0000

In my feeble attempt to contribute to Will Larson's reusable Django search solution django-springsteen, I recently offered a light realign/redesign of Will's previous UI, tweaking just his html/css to more clearly present the results.

Django-Pressbox

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:56:01 -0000

I always seem to need a press section for the websites I'm building these days. So I took the features they all share and combined them into a reusable Django app. Please feel free to fork, add features, etc. Go check out django-pressbox on github.

Django-FAQ

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:21:22 -0000

I released a small reusable app for adding an FAQ section to your site titled django-faq. It may seem a bit boring since it really isn't a complicated solution but I did make sure to include some "reusable app" best practices and even an example project that details how to make use of those practices. It's also hosted by GitHub, my new favorite social distributed source control system. Check out the project.

Discussion with Eric Holscher

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:34:38 -0000

Eric Holscher is the creator of TestMaker, the automated test maker (hence the name) for your Django projects. On this, the first official TWiD callcast, we discuss his testing and debugging screencasts, how he got into Django, Test Driven Development, and DjangoCon. Go check it out.

What's up Doc?

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:12:59 -0000

If you haven't noticed I've slowed down greatly with my posts related to Django. That's because with the recent redesign of the This Week in Django website and the addition of the @twiderrific twitter account all my callcasts and links are being posted on BOTH the TWiD website/twitter account so make to subscribe to both.

Gonna miss summer

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:06:15 -0000

I'm lucky that I live relatively close to the Jersey shore. About 10 miles away from the first public beach. My pops sent me some pictures over the weekend I really just loved this one. Here I am on the Sea Bright beach ith my son Conor.

This Week in Django Redesign

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:30:59 -0000

If you wanted to know why I've been so quite recently is because I've been hard working on my development, design, and strategy company Monty Lounge Industries, LLC. But somehow the This Week in Django (TWiD) crew convinced ourselves to launch a new TWiD site during the 1.0 release week. Go check out the redesign - this week in django.

Big props go out to Michael Trier and Brian Rosner for implementing the Django side of things. Those guys are just amazing at getting things done.

Django-NYC August Meeting Roundup

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:16:59 -0000

This month's django-nyc was hosted at Huge Inc and they couldn't have been more hospitable. Thanks to Loren Davie, co-founder of django-nyc, for hooking us up with the new location and for everyone at Huge for putting together a great environment for the meetup. We had food (I think I even saw some hummus somewhere along the amazing spread), drinks (aka beers) and a great presentation space. Oh, and we talked about NewFormsAdmin - including a great intro to nfa from Loren Davie, as well as a special presentation by Brian Rosner who provided a sneak peek presentation of his forthcoming DjangoCon presentation "What's New in NewForms-Admin".