Hi, I'm Daniel Greenfeld, and welcome to my blog. I write about Python, Django, and much more.

Developer Time

Tuesday, December 04, 2012 (permalink)

This blog post got started with a tweet.

That tweet got retweeted a lot by developers. And system administrators. And database administrators. And any creative type.

As of December 7th, 2012, it had been retweeted over 500 times, a personal best. Obviously I struck a chord that resonated with a ...

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Thoughts on ranting

Monday, November 26, 2012 (permalink)

I'll admit it, I love a good rant. I respect those who can give rants well. I would list the ones I really like, but I'm not sure I want to deal with the arguments that would follow. ;-)

Of course, as much as I like to read or ...

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Choosing a new python based blog engine

Thursday, April 05, 2012 (permalink)

Why a new blog engine?

On my old blog, I had been having issues with Blogger for some time. The WYSIWYG text editor was annoying in that it produced wonky HTML, so I had to hand craft the posts. Which meant I often wrote the HTML formatted copy in a ...

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My new blog

Friday, February 17, 2012 (permalink)

What I did to get it running:

pip install pelican
git clone git://github.com/pydanny/pydanny.github.com.git

My settings.py file:

AUTHOR = 'Daniel Greenfeld'
DISQUS_SITENAME = 'pydanny'
GITHUB_URL = 'https://github.com/pydanny'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS='UA-18066389-2'
SITEURL = 'http://pydanny.github.com'
SITENAME = 'pydanny'
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/pydanny'),
          ('github ...
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Tried out Jekyll

Thursday, February 09, 2012 (permalink)

Why Jekyll?

I've had issues with Blogger for some time. After my fiancee, Audrey Roy, moved her blog to https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll, I was impressed enough to give it a try.

Why did it impress me?

Code highlighting made easy

I don't have to hand-craft HTML ...

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