Recent Blog Posts

Django Deployment Talk May 1, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at Boulder Django on Django Deployment and Hosting options. We had a good turnout and I think overall most of the attendees learned something about Django, Python, and Deployments. I've included the slides on speakerdeck below.

Moving From Mod_Wsgi to Gunicorn with Webfaction April 9, 2013

This week (tonight) I moved my major sites (this site, my wife's site and my brothers site) over to Gunicorn from Mod_wsgi. I initially thought it was going to be an incredibly different process, but I'm here to show that it can be done in one night and it isn't nearly as hard as I thought. I wanted to document and outline the process in case anyone ...

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Work Projects

College of Business Mentoring Program

The mentoring project is a online application and matching process for College of Business students to be matched with dedicated mentors in our community. The description of the program from their site.

The Kansas State University Business Executive Mentor Program is a new initiative that pairs successful business executives with students. This mentorship allows our students to learn from industry leaders, maximize their time in college and gain the skills ...

K-State Selective Scholarships

K-State Selective Scholarships is a web application process for students that have been pre-selected as high achievers, and that the university specifically targets for prestigious scholarships. This app uses the new Django Form Wizard and some critical interaction with other University systems.

Open Source Work

Hadrian

Hadrian is a quick set of uiltilties and django based python libraries that aid in the creation of every single one of my web applications. Included are common uses of slugification, common middleware, and a basic fabric file that you can inherit and use in your projects.

Code on Github Documentation

FotoChest

Fotochest is a online gallery for all of your photos. Written in Python on top of Django, Fotochest is an extensible, easy to use photo gallery with an extensive API and other customizations.

Code on Github Documentation