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.
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.