Django migrate tips
If you read the documentation closely enough, of course all the information is there. Getting the order of operations right, however, can cause the odd issue. Developing Django apps means applying...
View ArticleSubmitting news on XML.com
I coded XML.com in Wagtail, a CMS based on Django. It works well for my needs and I like Python as a programming language. One of the big reasons I like Wagtail is that it includes a powerful enough...
View ArticleAdding the ‘s’
Let’s Encrypt has made it much easier for web sites to use https instead of http, even those on shared hosting. In my case, all I needed to do was ask my ISP, Canadian Web Hosting, to move my accounts...
View ArticleSwitching the Mathjax CDN
If you have MathML on your WordPress site, using the Mathjax system to show it, then you need to know that Mathjax is shutting down the CDN as of April 30, 2017. If, like me, you use the MathJax-LaTeX...
View ArticleVoting systems
In Canada, where I live, the voting system for the parliaments is the easy to understand, but blunt, first past the post (FPTP) system (also called plurality voting). The person who wins the most votes...
View ArticleThe Wild Robot (book review)
My now 11-year-old daughter loves books and reading so I asked her to write a book review for a couple of her favourites. This one is for The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown. She gave this book ★★★★★ out of...
View ArticleTags and case
For a while there XML.com didn’t handle tags on submitted news items very well. If a tag was included that was in a different case to an existing tag, the preview and publish would result in a 500...
View ArticleWifi with WPA enterprise
Posted in case it helps someone else. One of my website clients asked for help with one of their Mac OS X laptops, which had suddenly stopped connecting to their wifi network. The wifi connection...
View ArticleDocker rabbit holes
(Or, as it’s commonly known, yak shaving.) In this case, to be able to use a Docker image, the easy way to install software (I’m told). But, of course, technology has a habit of throwing curve balls....
View ArticleThis is not over
Covid, I mean. As in the pandemic that is still there, that people are trying to ignore and pretend it’s not that bad. Except that for those of us dealing with long covid, or post-covid, or...
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