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In-Depth django-sphinx Tutorial | David Cramer's Blog

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:40:23 -0700

In-Depth django-sphinx Tutorial | David Cramer's Blog: Tutorial for how to integrate Sphinx SQL Search and Django.

Am I Breathing Still?

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:53:17 -0700

The last few months have been insane. Just insane.

I have worked harder, on more cool stuff, than I ever had. There have been three major web products launching at the same time, as well as conferences, the studio and baseball!

I am finally getting a grasp on how to deal with all my content. The next couple of months will allow me to get a grasp on all of it and mash it up in really cool ways.

More to come.

This is one of my all time favorites.

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:44:44 -0700

This is one of my all time favorites.

Unbracketed: Integrate markItUp! Into the Django Admin

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:39:03 -0700

Unbracketed: Integrate markItUp! Into the Django Admin: nice tutorial

Zeitgeist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:06:14 -0700

Zeitgeist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Pretty good explination. I love “Mind of the time”

71 Gradient Resources for Web Design | Vandelay Website Design

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:28:20 -0700

71 Gradient Resources for Web Design | Vandelay Website Design: Excited to look through this list of resources about Gradients later today

THE ECO ZOO | ECODA!DOBUTSUEN

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:47:21 -0700

THE ECO ZOO | ECODA!DOBUTSUEN: This is a wonderful UI and site. Very well done and thought through.

PROTECTYOURHEAD.com - Brain Injury Prevention

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:45:00 -0700

PROTECTYOURHEAD.com - Brain Injury Prevention: Pretty cool brain injury website from Canada

Adobe - Developer Center : An architectural blueprint for Flex applications

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:12:49 -0700

Adobe - Developer Center : An architectural blueprint for Flex applications: Another flex framework with samples.

Flex.org - Rich Internet Applications, Rapid Web Application Development, Open Source Flex, Open Source Flash, Adobe Flex, Flex 2, Flex 3

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:24:19 -0700

Flex.org - Rich Internet Applications, Rapid Web Application Development, Open Source Flex, Open Source Flash, Adobe Flex, Flex 2, Flex 3: Flex community site.

PureMVC - ActionScript 3 [Standard]

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:47:11 -0700

PureMVC - ActionScript 3 [Standard]: Oh my gosh, mvc for flex. That is cool.

PyAMF - AMF for Python

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:55:06 -0700

PyAMF - AMF for Python: I’ll be playing with this this weekend. Pretty cool flex and django integration

1d. RIA Tutorial - Flex 3 Getting Started - Adobe Learning Resources

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:57:44 -0700

1d. RIA Tutorial - Flex 3 Getting Started - Adobe Learning Resources: Cool Flex and Flickr tutorial

If you are Experiencing Outages

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:02:23 -0700

When it rains it pours… I have been working on a support issue with the servers to resolve a proxy error issue. And now, when trying to contact support… I found out that one of the datacenters that supports Webaction BLEW UP! LOL. I’ll keep looking and post more here. Here is a repost from there status blog:

Network outage affecting several servers
Posted May 31 at 18:22 CDT by Richard Cooper in Downtime - 0 comment(s)
Issues at one of our data center are causing downtime on several servers. We are working to resolve this problem as soon as possible.

Update: Today at approximately 5:45 p.m. CDT, a transformer in one of The Planet’s Huston datacentres caught fire, requiring them to take down all of the generators on site on the instructions of the fire department. This is one of six data-centres used by WebFaction. All servers hosted at that datacentre are currently offline.

Update: No servers in the datacentre have been damaged. However, they are still down down because power is still out.

Update: The datacentre staff are still working to restore power to all affected servers

Update: A few minutes ago The Planet posted some more information about the outage. Here are a couple of excerpts from the post:

This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.

All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

Update: The datacentre staff are still working to fix the various network and power various issues caused by the fire. There is currently no firm estimate for when everything will be back on line.

Feedburner is Not Playing Nice

Sat, 31 May 2008 10:42:18 -0700

The site has been acting odd lately and has been frustrating folks. I am working to get the bugs out. One of the problems that was crashing the site was how Feedburner was processing our feeds. In doing research, our server technicians stated the following:

“I also checked the date/times of the errors against your access log, and every error seems to be associated with a request from FeedBurner.

Since the error is “IOError: Write failed, client closed connection” my best guess is that FeedBurner doesn’t like something about your feeds and is choking on them, which in turn is causing your app to crash.”

Ticket Reference: Ticket ID: NJB-168334

This means that, when Feedburner tries to read the feeds, it basically goes nuts and blows up the site. That is odd, considering it has worked well in the past. Feedburner may have “upgraded” something and now it is blowing up.

So, for the time being I have shut off the Feedburner feeds and created normal feeds for the site. Please update your news aggregator with the new links. I will continue to look into the issue and fix it. The new feeds work well, and I was able to subscribe via Google Reader easily.

If you have ANY questions please email dave [at] purebluedesign [dot] com. Thanks for your patience. I realize that this is really frustrating.

Thanks again… Dave

ParisLemon: Faux "HD" - It's About the Bit-rate Too, Stupid

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:51:26 -0700

ParisLemon: Faux "HD" - It's About the Bit-rate Too, Stupid: cool quick article on HD

xml4py - Google Code

Fri, 30 May 2008 06:16:07 -0700

xml4py - Google Code: This looks rad and would make django/RIA development a snap

Create a Quiz Application Using AS3 Classes - ActionScript.org Flash, Flex and ActionScript Resources

Wed, 28 May 2008 07:33:56 -0700

Create a Quiz Application Using AS3 Classes - ActionScript.org Flash, Flex and ActionScript Resources: Great actionscript tutorial

Julia Nunes' Videos

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:15:58 -0700

Julia Nunes' Videos: This is so rad. What a great collection of work.

Japanese custom scooters ::: Pink Tentacle

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:16:24 -0700

Japanese custom scooters ::: Pink Tentacle: Holy scoot batman! These are amazing scooters from Japan