Tag Archives: Django

My First Callcast

Check it out.  Thanks Kevin!

Tweet 2 Tweet

Announcing my latest (tiny) project: Tweet 2 Tweet.
You know when you see someone’s Twitter update with an @ reply in it to someone you don’t know and are completely confused about the topic?  Tweet 2 Tweet is an effort to solve that.  You can put both of their names into Tweet 2 Tweet and see [...]

FriendFeed Stats - FriendFeed API + Open Source

I really dropped the ball on writing a blog post about this one but better late than never!
On March 21st Bret Taylor (one of the FriendFeed founders) asked if I’d like to provide feedback for the then upcoming FriendFeed API.  I was very interested in getting my hands on it and stoked that I was [...]

RSSmeme - Javascript Love

RSSmeme is now even more Web 2.0 with the addition of Javascript events.  When Brian Beck gave RSSmeme a makeover he also threw in the ability to shrink down the tag/shared user list by using jQuery.  This got me interested in jQuery and I found myself not completely hating it.  I have had bad experiences [...]

RSSmeme - Go the Gym, Idle in #django, Solve all of your Cache Problems

Caching is important; the more you can cache, the less you hit your database, the more pages you can serve.  But I hadn’t figured out how to efficiently cache RSSmeme because each page is dependent on a session variable to decide if you see none/some/all of the content.  I had settled on using the @vary_on_cookie [...]