Content Tagged "web"

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 easier later. I will refer to…

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 - A design course to DIY (free…

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.

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 which automatically checks all the…

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…