Tonight’s Milwaukee Web Design Meetup featured a CMS MegaPanel - eight pros in eight content management systems, head to head on development, features, ecosystems, costs. I represented for MODX.

Continue with MODX can beat up your content management system

MongoDB is replying to a replica-set add command with “Need most members up to reconfigure, not ok”. The problem is with my configuration.

Continue with A quick note on MongoDB replica sets

Sitting right now at my desk at Top Floor Technologies, I’ve got 18 monitors available to me as I work. Excessive? Nah. 18 is almost enough.

Continue with My 18-monitor setup

I ran Drupal on GlusterFS for a few days. I didn’t like it. Here’s why.

Continue with Drupal, on GlusterFS, on Rackspace Cloud

A customer received 40,000 mailer-daemon messages yesterday. I bet that was fun.

Continue with Elavon Phishing Scam

This is part three in a series exploring how Tryton might fare as the heavy-lifting portion of an e-commerce package. This third part explores what it means to do e-commerce.

Continue with Tryton as an e-commerce back-end - Web Framework

Here’s the recap of day three, the last day of the talks. Apparently I took good notes on day three, since this is by far the longest post, and the one it took me longest to produce. It was, indubitably, an excellent day.

Continue with DjangoCon, part four

Day two is done, and I’m trying to do better at this. I definitely have better notes than yesterday. I have slightly fewer of them too, since the South session was absolutely worthless to me, and I blew off Tilting at Windmills to go up to the room with a stomach ache and a customer who needed help.

Continue with DjangoCon, part three

Oh my, I’m not good at this. There are people around live-blogging (and live-noting) the conference, and I’m scraping the sleepiness off my face enough to see the screen, only to realize I don’t actually remember yesterday very well. I may be exagerating a little, but I did not take adequate notes (sorry, PyDanny - I heard you on this, really I did.)

Continue with DjangoCon, part two

It’s two days before DjangoCon, I’m on a plane to Portland, and I’ve mostly been spending my time reading the Django Book. That has me thinking about what I expect from the conference.

Continue with DjangoCon, part one