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Its Alive

I have been planning and working on this new revision of my website off and on for about 6 months now. I decided to move to a new host and build everything in python on top of django. Its been a great learning experience. There are many features I want to add but I felt it was at a stage ...

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Making it Green

I've spent a considerable amount of spare time on and off over the past several months working on an updated revision of my website. I decided to take on the task of building a blogging system on top of django instead of using wordpress. I started teaching myself python and django about 6 months ago and have enjoyed working ...

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The Cloudroom

I've made a few changes to the design of the site today including these clouds in the background. I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to keep them or not, but right now I like them. The initial user reaction tests I did people thought it was an improvement for the most part. I think it gives ...

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New Photo Galleries

Awhile back I decided that I wasn't totally happy with Gallery2. It has a lot of great features but its just a bit to slow for my taste with the way it has to access the database for everything.

I heard about the Flickr API maybe 6 months ago or so, it sounded like a very interesting idea. I ...

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New Flickr

For awhile I've been kind of frustrated with a lot of the photos on my flickr account. I have a huge amount of photos I want people to see from parties, family gatherings, photo blogging, outtakes, etc. But I don't want them all to be on my main flickr account. Flickr has become really a way to host ...

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The New

I've been working off and on for the last several months to try and complete the new design for my website. It was a big task was integrating Gallery2 into the design to display my photos. I created a custom theme for it and finally got it to look like something I liked.

Sunday Morning Espresso
A few weeks later I decided ...

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Sights and Sounds...

I've put a fair amount of work into re-configuring my entire photo gallery layout. I had planned on writing my own system, I had a good framework designed but I realized it would take way more development hours than I had time for at the moment. I went ahead and implemented the php Gallery for the time being. Its ...

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