Simon Willison’s Weblog

Automating web site deployment at Barcamp Brighton. I’m determined to start using Fabric and proper deployment scripts for my personal projects.

# 6th September 2009, 2:16 pm / barcamp, barcampbrighton, deployment, fabric, gareth-rushgrove

Fabric, Django, Git, Apache, mod_wsgi, virtualenv and pip deployment. I’m slowly working my way through this stack at the moment—next stop, fabric.

# 28th July 2009, 11:56 am / apache, deployment, django, fabric, gareth-rushgrove, git, modwsgi, pip, python, virtualenv

Django Settings Tip—Setting Relative Paths. This is the first thing I do in every single one of my Django projects—it makes projects relocatable to other machines with just a couple of lines of code. I wouldn’t be at all upset to see it added to the default Django settings.py file created by ./manage.py startproject

# 12th February 2009, 12:30 pm / django, gareth-rushgrove, python, settings

Localbuilder. Gareth Rushgrove’s neat little Python continuous integration tool—it watches a directory for changes, then runs a command when it spots any.

# 14th January 2009, 10:57 pm / continuous-integration, gareth-rushgrove, localbuilder, python, testing

Using Python and Stompserver to Get Started With Message Queues. An eminently practical guide to this year’s Hot New Thing (for web developers at least) from Gareth Rushgrove.

# 14th September 2008, 11:39 pm / gareth-rushgrove, message-queues, python, stomppy, stompserver

Why the webstandards world appears to be choosing Django. I’m not convinced that this is a definite trend, but it certainly makes for an interesting discussion.

# 4th April 2008, 8:33 am / django, gareth-rushgrove, python, web-standards

Insert Dojo and YUI bookmarklets. Combine with Jash for interactive API experimentation on any web page.

# 9th December 2007, 12:38 pm / bookmarklets, dojo, gareth-rushgrove, jash, javascript, shell, yui

Jash: JavaScript Shell (via) An advanced JavaScript interactive shell bookmarklet that works in IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari.

# 9th December 2007, 12:36 pm / bookmarklet, firefox, gareth-rushgrove, ie, jash, javascript, opera, safari, shell