Django-powered Snow

During the planning of our Christmas card at work this year, a mad idea came up. Do we ignore mad ideas? No, we tackle them head-on.

Posted 17th December 2009 in Python, and Django, with 5 comments

South 0.6.2

In my neverending quest to save the time of those using RDBMSen, South 0.6.2 is released.

Posted 26th October 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 3 comments

Announcing Heechee

In my opinion, there's just not enough Subversion servers on the internet.

Posted 10th September 2009 in Python, with 5 comments

South 0.6.1

South 0.6.1 is now available for public consumption; it fixes quite a few bugs.

Posted 5th September 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 1 comment

South 0.6

It is with great pleasure (and a measurable sense of relief) that I announce the release of South 0.6, a new release bringing quite a few new features, although most of them aren't immediately obvious.

Posted 11th August 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 6 comments

South 0.6 Release Candidate

After a long few months, during which I've increased my recommendations to run off trunk, South 0.6 is almost here.

Posted 6th August 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 5 comments

South 0.6 news

It's about time I posted an update on what's going on with South development, so here it is.

Posted 28th June 2009 in Django, and South, with 11 comments

South’s Design

I had a lot of interesting chats with people about South last week at EuroDjangoCon, and several eyebrows have been raised at me both parsing models and then storing their definitions as dicts.

Posted 9th May 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 9 comments

EuroDjangoCon Slides

For those interested, the slides from my migrations talk at EuroDjangoCon are up. I believe the videos will be around soon.

Posted 5th May 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 10 comments

South 0.5

I'm pleased to announce the release of South 0.5; this has been a long and exciting release, with many new features...

Posted 27th April 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 7 comments

Mornington Square

Have you ever felt the burning need to ride aimlessly aimfully around the London Underground? Well, then I have good news for you.

Posted 17th March 2009 in Web Design, Python, and Django, with 3 comments

Southerly Breezes

Work on South has been going full steam ahead lately, with some good results.

Posted 10th March 2009 in Django, and South, with 7 comments

Fun with GIS

I've always been somewhat envious when seeing the various sites with nice maps of crime, prices and other things for non-UK regions.

Posted 20th February 2009 in Web Design, Python, WhoseTurf, and Django, with 2 comments

nüsite

Welcome to the new aeracode.org, now with a bit more blue, and added Unantistalker™ technology.

Posted 28th January 2009 in General, and Python, with 4 comments

The Panic Button

Today I took delivery of one USB Panic Button; I've been wanting one of these for a very long time, and so I'm pleased to finally have one. I don't necessarily have a need to panic a lot, but there's a lot of times a big red button is just so satisfying (launch events, test runs, and so on).

Unfortunately, it comes with a Windows driver CD and the only Linux script I could find was a Perl script. Since I'm not the greatest fan of Perl, and I wanted to try some USB code, I've made my own driver for them.

Posted 22nd January 2009 in Python, with 3 comments

South 0.4 Released

After far too many months of quiet feature development and bug fixing, we're happy to finally announce South 0.4, which has a whole host of new features to satiate your every migration need.

The list of new features alone really is quite long; you can see it at http://south.aeracode.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/0.4, but I'll go through a few of them quickly:

Posted 12th January 2009 in Python, Django, and South, with 6 comments

LastGraph Expiries

Just a heads-up to any LastGraph users to let you know that, soon, I'll be implementing one-week graph storage expiry (but probably not for premium users). There's now 128GB of PDFs being stored on S3, and it's probably time I started not throwing money away.

Posted 1st January 2009 in Python, and LastGraph, with 40 comments