Tom Clancy

Django, Haystack & Elastic Search (Yes, I know it’s been a while.)

We Do This Every Day So it’s been a while.

Kill Screen Magazine: Kill Screen Magazine 2011-03-01 Django-based site for a print-based video game publication moving online.

Rivermill at Dover Landing: Rivermill at Dover Landing 2011-01-01 Built a site for my own business that uses a large number of Django apps and tools to make our small business seem like a big one.

Catharsis: To a Young Designer “To be young (is to be sad).”

Week 162 ”[T]he advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if the volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I’ll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned.

Frontline/ PBS: Frontline: God in America 2010-10-01 A social website for viewers of the Frontline program “God in America” to come together and discuss their religious views.

Week 142 “That tension— between beauty and cynicism, between what the Brazilians call futebol d’arte and futebol de resultades— is a constant, perhaps because it is so fundamental, not merely to sport, but also to life: to win, or to play the game well?

Great North Property Management: Great North Website and Secured Areas 2010-06-01 Provided a Django CMS for the main website, a secured area for residents to manage their accounts and an engine to run individual sites for each property.

Week 137 Not a whole lot to report.

django-avatar and Pinax Configuration Noting this here for the sanity of my future self.

Week 134 “It ain’t always easy, if your knees knock as hard as mine, but you must remember the golden rule: when the game’s going against you, stay calm— and cheat.”

Any Interest in the 700-page Abridged Version?

Week 133 ”[T]here’s something splendid waiting for you to go and find it, far out yonder.

True Love: A Play in One Act OUTDOORS - NIGHT - FENWAY PARK A nice April night, game is in the middle innings, Kevin Youkilis coming up to bat.

Week 132 “Well, the Devil made me do it the first time/ Second time I done it on my own.”

Crew Log: Social Media Site for Boat Crews 2010-04-01 Worked with Slim Kiwi to create a social media site for boat crews to track their friends on crews across the world.

Community Trust Bank: Community Trust Bank Site 2010-04-01 CMS and Django tools for a Louisiana bank web site.

Week 129 “There’s no sense in a man picking out the worst name he can find for everything.”

Week 128 Not much changed from last week, mainly working to push the social networking site out the door (while working on a proposal for another Django/ Pinax project).

Week 127 (idea cribbed from BERG, week count done by Wolfram Alpha because I am too lazy) ”[T]he beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest.”

Fidelity: Broker Information Site 2010-03-01 Private web site that brings encrypted XML data about funds into Expression Engine which displays the information in HTML and PDF formats.

On Optimization It’s strange what you can get used to: the current social network site I’m working on has a page with 216 database queries on it.

My Party Label: My Party Label Order Form 2010-02-13 Turned manual email order process into an online form.

Microformat Proposal: Coding Experience When I’m working, even in a language I know well, I often search for how to do something; either because I don’t know or because I feel there’s a better way (as @ed_atwell says, “I don’t know, but I bet my friends L…

Cheating at The Beatles: Rock Band My favorite thing about the game is the harmonizing and the way it increases the feeling that you’re really in a band, but if you’re all about the score (or bereft of friends), feel free to take advantage of these two pi…

Django/ Pinax: Problems With Login() in Unit Tests This is the first in what promise to be a number of “Stupid Django Tricks” where the “stupid” is me and not Django.

Monty Back, Rommel Still Dead Bob Montgomery is doing the color for today’s Red Sox game and I can’t figure out how to feel about it.

Quincy Pond Printworks: Quincy Pond Printworks 2009-07-15 Helped Lightfin integrate a new site design with a Miva shopping cart.

Lockheed Martin: Lockheed Martin Healthplan Website 2009-06-19 A site for Aetna health plan customers at Lockheed Martin My first Django project and first work with Project Evolution was a site for Aetna health plan.

Free to a Harmonix Home, Rock Band Idea Why doesn’t Rock Band allow you to create additional cities and venues?

New Age Software Services: Website and Bullhorn API Integration 2009-06-01 A new website including integration with Bullhorn, a job search database.

YUI Rich Text Editor in Django Admin This ain’t exactly rocket science, but it took me an embarrassing amount of time to get there, so I’m posting the code for next time.

MarketConnector: Marketconnector Business Community 2009-04-27 Social network for New England businesses built in PHP on Social Engine.

My Name is Crew I am posting this because I need to keep track of these things.

Salmon Falls Nursery: Salmon Falls Nursery Portfolio 2009-04-02 Design portfolio for a New Hampshire landscape design company Working with a design company on a portfolio tool can be an intimidating process.

Expression Engine if Clauses This is the kind of thing that’s not worth a blog post except some day it might save one person hours of frustration.

Dreams They Complicate My Life Had one of those constant dreams nights which I take as indicative of good sleep, though I was awoken by my iPod once.

PHP Excel Exporter A few times a year a client needs to export something from a database table to Excel.

Windows GPG Front-End I’m doing some work with GPG encryption and I always like to have a visual/ gui front-end to use to make sure I haven’t screwed something up in my command line adventures.

Morning Stress I want English Muffin insurance, for those times when you tear the thing all wrong and one side is basically not there and the thing toasts completely unevenly because of the difference in girth.

Nothing's Coming Out!

Anatomy of a Late Night New Year’s Eve has totally thrown us off schedule.

HP: W3C Print CSS Testing 2009-01-06 Sponsored by HP, I worked with the W3C to create tests so browser/ user-agent programmers can make sure their code conforms to CSS2.1 and CSS3 Print standards.

“Life's Good”, Indeed I am providing this post-mortem both as a public service and so I don’t punch in the screen of my brand-new LG monitor.

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Xmas Flick Tradition Continues for Hicks in Stix I bought myself a couple of early Xmas/ Birthday presents this week, Going My Way and The Bells of St.

denimrack: Denimrack Website Overhaul 2008-11-10 Updated an existing X-Cart-powered ecommerce site to improve usability, correct bugs on the front-end and add reporting to the administrative tools.

Making .NET 2.0 Spit JSON I just finished translating a set of PHP web services into C# for a national car insurer and came across two things worth mentioning, if only for my future reference.

Progressive Insurance: Progressive API Conversion 2008-11-06 Took an existing API concept written in PHP, converted it to C#, polished some of the rough edges and documented.