Joseph Piché » django http://jpiche.com Web development professional with expertise in PHP, MySQL query optimization, Ajax, and XHTML Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:04:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Okay, I lied. http://jpiche.com/2009/12/okay-i-lied/ http://jpiche.com/2009/12/okay-i-lied/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:47:42 +0000 Joseph Piché http://jpiche.com/?p=409 I had a fun two weeks with Django, but now it’s over. There is nothing wrong with Django, in fact page load times went from about 1-1.5 seconds to about 100-300 milliseconds. I haven’t narrowed down why yet—maybe python over php, maybe InnoDB tables instead of MyISAM, maybe mod_passenger instead of fastcgi. While I plan on trying to figure it out later, Wordpress just plain works. If I need to type a post, wordpress lets me do that really simply. For some reason, Dreamhost doesn’t like some of the admin urls I use and I really do not have time to figure it out. So, hello Wordpress 2.9.

I decided to keep the new theme, but I put ads back on the site again. I will not ask you to click on them, that would be violating the Terms and Conditions of having them there, but in case if someone does happen to find something useful in them, I get a few cents from each click.

]]> http://jpiche.com/2009/12/okay-i-lied/feed/ 2 Brave New Blog http://jpiche.com/2009/12/brave-new-blog/ http://jpiche.com/2009/12/brave-new-blog/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:29:34 +0000 Joseph Piché http://dev.jpiche.com/?p=380 Lots of changes are happening around here. I will no longer be offering ads on my blog for starters. I don’t like ads and I‘m guessing you don’t either. My services involve programming, and I want to make a living by legitimately doing work, not stealing money by people clicking on ads.

In other news, my blog now uses the Django web framework. I am really happy to move away from Wordpress as I now have complete control over my database schema. Django provides a great framework for making web applications quickly and efficiently—if you haven’t noticed this page probably loads much faster.

However, I wrote the RSS feed from scratch, so if you have problems with it, please let me know.

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