Eric Florenzano’s Blog

Blog Archive

2012

Apr 18
Using Twitter's iOS5 Integration for Single Sign-On
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Jan 02
Reducing Code Nesting
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2011

Feb 16
The Technology Behind Convore
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2010

Oct 10
An Object Lesson in How to Respond to Criticism
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Sep 27
Why node.js disappoints me
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May 20
We need a new word for "Open"
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Feb 09
How do we kick our synchronous addiction?
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2009

Nov 11
You care about Facebook, you just might not know it yet
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Jul 21
My Thoughts on NoSQL
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Apr 03
Flojax: A unobtrusive and easy strategy for creating AJAX-style web applications
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Mar 02
Tagging cache keys for O(1) batch invalidation
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Mar 01
Notice Something Different?
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Jan 08
Writing Blazing Fast, Infinitely Scalable, Pure-WSGI Utilities
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Jan 03
2008 in Review & 2009 Goals
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2008

Nov 30
It's been a wild ride
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Nov 29
Why CouchDB Rocks
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Nov 29
Drop-dead simple Django caching
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Nov 27
Reverse HTTP
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Nov 27
"Web Hooks"
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Nov 26
Screencast Competition for Pinax/Django
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Nov 25
Trying to Start a Programming Meme
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Nov 23
Why CouchDB Sucks
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Nov 23
The most widely available virtual machine
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Nov 22
Are pure client-side web apps the wave of the future?
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Nov 21
Blog Updated (now with more CouchDB)
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Nov 20
Lambda Calculus
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Nov 19
Why you should blog
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Nov 18
WSGI middleware is awesome, and Django should use it more
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Nov 17
Writing an Markov-Chain IRC Bot with Twisted and Python
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Nov 16
Exploring Erlang's gen_server
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Nov 15
Easy Multi-Database Support for Django
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Nov 14
"To IDE or not to IDE?", that is the question
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Nov 13
Book Meme
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Nov 11
Why use a VARCHAR when you can use TEXT?
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Nov 11
Making Django Imports Less Painful
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Nov 10
Using CouchDB with Django
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Nov 09
Legacy Code
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Nov 08
It's Caches All the Way Down
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Nov 06
Secrets of the Django ORM
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Nov 06
The internet is in immediate danger of collapse
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Nov 05
Why SQLAlchemy is the best ORM on the face of the planet
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Nov 04
Database triggers aren't evil, and they actually kind of rock
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Nov 02
Gems of Python
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Nov 02
What's Next?
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Sep 29
Programming Languages I've Learned (In Rough Order) Meme
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Sep 19
"Django From the Ground Up" Screencast Series Launched
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Sep 08
DjangoCon: Great conference, or greatest conference ever?
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Jul 31
Spawning + Django
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Jul 30
Intermediary Models and PyMag
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Jul 13
First Two Django Screencasts
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Jul 10
Japan and San Francisco
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Jun 07
Djangodash was Fun!
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Jun 06
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going
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May 27
FriendFeed Comment Expand Bookmarklet
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May 24
Managers and Voting and Subqueries, Oh My!
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May 17
Exploring Mixins with Django Model Inheritance
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May 15
Revolutionary Ideas
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May 06
My Awesome Regex Snippet
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May 04
Inheritance vs. Composition
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Apr 17
Learning Design
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Apr 10
Lessons Learned
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Apr 01
April Fools
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Mar 21
Talk Controversy, Django Community, Sprints, and People
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Mar 14
PyCon 2008
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Mar 12
Ideas and Execution
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Feb 22
Hosting a Django Site with Pure Python
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Feb 22
Syntax Highlighting
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Feb 15
Django Tip: A Denormalization Alternative
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Feb 11
On Context Processors in Django
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Feb 09
OOP and Django
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Feb 05
XFN Markup Enabled
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Jan 30
AJAX, Voting, and Some Nicer CSS: Putting django-threadedcomments to the Test
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Jan 23
Announcing django-threadedcomments
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Jan 04
I Caucused Tonight
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2007

Dec 18
Creating a Pownce Widget Using Django
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Dec 11
Django-Related Audio from Last Year's PyCon
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Dec 10
Looking Forward: Upcoming Django Developments Worth Waiting For
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Dec 07
Getting Involved in the Django Project
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Dec 06
Fun Way of Displaying a Blogroll
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Sep 14
Picky
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Aug 11
Eyespot Internship: Complete
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Aug 08
Interesting Discussion, Nginx
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Aug 07
Sphinx Search, Totally Rad Website
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Aug 04
Cheetah and Django
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Aug 03
SimpleAggregation update, Eyespot
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Aug 02
35W Bridge
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Jul 31
iPhone Says: "Hello, World"
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Aug 01
Information has a Long Way to Go
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Jul 30
Introducing django_simpleaggregation
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Jul 26
Woohoo!
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Jul 26
Web Design
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Apr 16
Simple Random Character Function
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Mar 09
Notice Anything?
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Feb 26
Post-Pycon Thoughts
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Feb 22
I'm at PyCon
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Feb 21
PyCon Plans
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Feb 14
Yet Another Project
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Feb 14
A Poem Crossed My Mind
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2006

Dec 20
Writing a Gallery App in Django, Part I
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Dec 09
Free Icons!
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Dec 06
MythTV Box Down
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Dec 04
Memcached and OpenWebLoad
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Dec 03
New Site Live!
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