Migrating To Django 1.0 This Week
2008-09-17, authored by: GF Admin
September 3rd marked the release of Django 1.0 which also marked a milestone for many developers in FOSS land who were in waiting to 'officially' adopt the new king of app frameworks. Congratulations to the Django project developers.
Here at Good Function, I'm in the process of adopting the new release so that we can start using it in production. I've created a new compat-django-1.0 branch to port the main Good Function site. So far, So good. Upon my initial code changes, the incompatible features have been easy. Admittedly, I knew version 1.0 was coming, so I halted most of my development in July.
We'll continue hosting support for Django 0.96 and Django 1.0 in case we have some old-school needs for it. However, I expect popularity to wane considerably for the pre-1.0 framework.
Today There's A New Server Online
2008-07-18, authored by: Chris
Hooray for fully managed, quick turnaround, dedicated server support. And of course hooray for linux. I finished the setup of the new server yesterday and put the finishing touches on all the backups, scripts, firewall, etc. At the end of the process I was pleasantly surprised by the high-level of success while moving everything. We upgraded just about everything (Apache, MySQL, Python, PHP, Linux OS and Zimbra) and we gained some important benefits without adding any costs to GF members. We also doubled the RAM, added a CPU core, doubled the processor speed and tripled our disk space. We're pretty much good to go for the next few years.
My Django Assistants Revealed
2008-07-01, authored by: GF Admin
I really have to plug these links, since they all pretty much secured my transition to Django. Not to mention, that I'll be back to visit these links as I create new sites. Dojo deserves a squirrelly response as I struggled all day only to fail miserably. Tiny MCE... Hurrah for you. Quick & Easy. PHP session integration was necessary to host static webalizer files while keeping privacy for all the co-op members.