selfhosted Going selfhosted - initial thoughts Couple of months ago I got notified that my hosting provider would increase their prices, with about 20%. On one side, I'm surprised that it happened only now (I have started witht them in 2014), but... 20% in one go is a bit much IMHO. So... I started
docker Web Services from Scratch - 1. Infrastructure I've started writing my first web service with Spring. It started as something simple (check periodically if a site is active), but it evolved more and more as requirements and over-engineering creped in. This post lists the tings I set up now so I can make my life
bootstrap Opinionated List of Bootstrap Resources Once in a while I need to write up HTML and CSS to put some pages out; usually in front of a Django site. To make things easier, I've been using bootstrap and ended up collecting a bunch of relevant links. Here they are... Easy design * bootstrappingdesign.com
proxy Make Spotify Web Player Work Behind Proxy Apparently, productivity increases when you listen to (the right type of) music. So, my medicine these days is Spotify. To make your proxy woes go away, try to use https://play.spotify.com/?http=1. If that doesn't work, you're out of luck.
devops Smart-Monitor your Site via e.g. Pingdom I use pingdom to check if one of my sites is up and running, getting an email if the root index.html page doesn't behave. I just read the single most interesting piece to use pingdom to check your whole site: I recommend creating an internal status page
amazon Improve S3Boto Django-Storages Performance with Custom Settings Django-storages is a great piece of software. It provides an uniform API for all kind of file storage backends, including Amazon's S3. I use it for storing assets (the /static/ and /media/) for my django app. However, particularly with the /static/ assets, I've noticed firebug/yslow
