Jesse's Development Blog

May 24th, 2010

Django 1.2 E-commerce: Book Release

Packt Publishing has officially released my book, "Django 1.2 E-commerce".

March 14th, 2010

Emacs for Python Programmers #2: Virtualenv, IPython & Daemon Mode

I describe my Emacs configuration for using Python virtual environments and interpreters within the editor.

Feb. 25th, 2010

Emacs for Python Programmers: Basics

I start a series of posts on setting up a powerful Emacs editor environment for working on Python code.

Oct. 5th, 2009

Announcing: django-calais v0.2

Launching a new django project called django-calais.

Sept. 5th, 2009

Simple word wrapping algorithm for Python's PIL

I recently found a need to use the Python Imaging library (PIL) to generate images containing sizable amounts of text. PIL is a very basic image library and has no support for typesetting. This is how I implemented the minimum length (greedy) algorithm, as detailed on Wikipedia.

Feb. 19th, 2008

django-syncr: Synchronize Django with the web

This is a little project I've been working on that syncs your user data from around the web with Django.

Dec. 5th, 2007

Django Chop Text Filter

I wrote a quick port of Ed Eliot's choptext PHP function to work as a Django filter.

May 19th, 2007

YouTube API for Python

I've written a simple Python wrapper around the YouTube API functions.

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