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 ...
Read more ...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 ...
Read more ...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 ...
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 ...
