It’s strange what you can get used to: the current social network site I’m working on has a page with 216 database queries on it. Used to be I’d get the hives if I hit a dozen queries on a page.

“216! Did you know …

Turned manual email order process into an online form.

Tired of accepting sometimes invalid orders over email, My Party Label came to me to create a form that contained all the information My Party Label needs to fulfill an order. The …

When I’m working, even in a language I know well, I often search for how to do something; either because I don’t know or because I feel there’s a better way (as @ed_atwell says, “I don’t know, but I bet my friends …

My favorite thing about the game is the harmonizing and the way it increases the feeling that you’re really in a band, but if you’re all about the score (or bereft of friends), feel free to take advantage of these two pieces …

This is the first in what promise to be a number of “Stupid Django Tricks” where the “stupid” is me and not Django. I was having a good deal of trouble creating unit tests for authenticated views (i.e., pages that require …

Bob Montgomery is doing the color for today’s Red Sox game and I can’t figure out how to feel about it. Monty and the late Ned Martin were the voice of the Red Sox (on WSBK TV38) when I was growing up and …

Helped Lightfin integrate a new site design with a Miva shopping cart.

Quincy Pond Printworks came to Lightfin and I with two requirements: a beautiful-looking new site and a shopping cart. Lightfin took care of the first with their usual aplomb. There were …

A site for Aetna health plan customers at Lockheed Martin

My first Django project and first work with Project Evolution was a site for Aetna health plan. The bulk of the site is driven by a Django-powered content management system with the rest …

Why doesn’t Rock Band allow you to create additional cities and venues? Nothing fancy, just the ability to set a city name and country, then create some venues. Venues would just let you select from the existing arenas and clubs^{1 …}

A new website including integration with Bullhorn, a job search database.

Please note: I am not currently working on Bullhorn projects. Their API has changed since this project was completed in 2009.

thumb:1 New Age Software Services had a …