I recently built a Drupal site for a small (individual) client who wanted to host the site on a Network Solutions basic Web hosting plan. This made sense for him,

Yup, I’m spamming my own blog…again. Earlier today on the handle-info mailing list, I made the following announcement about the open source (BSD license) release of the Handle System Web

I possess over a decade of experience building custom applications and customizing off-the-shelf applications based on open source technologies, with particular emphasis in these areas: content management, E-commerce, digital imaging,

Last night during one of my final email checks of the day, I got an email message from a recruiter. What made this particular email interesting was that the recruiter

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my motivation Although I’ve used many Web based applications that employ tagging, I’ve yet to create an application of my own with this feature. But now, I have two potential

I’ve updated the django-restful-model-views contribution, based on feedback I’ve received, primarily to make this a more generic REST API (not just model based). This update also begins implementing some ideas

If you've scanned my blog in the past, you know that I am a big fan of Python and have been obsessed with Django recently, which to date is the

So, I’m sitting here learning Ruby and Rails, and a thought starts to emerge: I wonder if I could use things like ActiveRecord separate from Rails for writing command line