Last Saturday as part of the Brighton Digital Festival Ian and I held the £5app day at the offices of Sensible Development.
Ian has a fairly in-depth write-up on his blog of the whole day.
I shall be providing a brief summary of "Developing your £5 app". Neil and I …
For those that aren't aware, SQLObject is an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library for Python. I use it in chrss (my chess by rss web app) as part of Turbogears. Ian and Kyran also use it as part of the ShowMeDo site.
Chrss and ShowMeDo have quite different levels of traffic …
I'm in the process of to writing a simple mobile version of chrss (chess by rss). This is spurred by the arrival of my new Nokia 6300 (which comes with Opera Mini). I'm aiming to end up with a mini-site running at http://chrss.co.uk/mob/ or similar.
The …
simple bread crumbs added to aid navigation:
highlighting games that it's your turn to move in:
PGN (portable game notation) output for games:
improved test coverage
Whilst reading this thread on the Turbogear's Google Group someone (asm on the list) posted a link to adding breadcrumbs to Turbogears apps.
After a little more reading I found a page on the Turbogears site itself about this subject too: http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/BreadCrumb
The really …
I'm about to discuss monkey patching in Python. Always consult an adult before monkey patching.
A little while back Jeremy Jones talked about Testing, Logging, and the Art of Monkey Patching in which he demonstrated using monkey patching to replace the use of tcp sockets. Thus removing the need to …
This update adds two features:
The first new feature was needed so I could finish this game. A bit like when I had to add the ability to resign a …
I've generally speaking been a fairly good boy when it comes to writing unit tests for chrss, but I know I haven't covered everything. Most of the focus has been on the underlying chess module, so I thought I'd best have a look and see what my actual unit test …
Just upgraded the £5app site to include a blog. Pretty easy to throw together using Django. It'll need some refining, but the site is proving to be a nice easy way to get familiar with Django.
Generic views (in particular the date views) helped a lot. Also managed to figure …