Home
Articles
Team Members
Projects
Corey Oordt
Open Source Repositories Have Moved
by Corey Oordt • Published 11 May 2011
We’ve moved The Washington Times’ open source projects on github to http://github.com/callowayproject
django -
open source -
python
Finding Which Python Packages Are Out-Of-Date
by Corey Oordt • Published 8 Apr 2011
As your projects get bigger, they collect more and more packages. It can be a chore keeping track of which packages have been updated to fix potential bugs. We have that issue and devised a simple script to tells us which installed packages could use a bit of freshening up.
4 Lessons Learned About Multivariate Testing
by Corey Oordt • Published 25 Jan 2011
Our first multivariate test netted a 13-18% increase in customer interaction using our Django testing framework and Google Website Optimizer. We learned a lot on this first go around.
django -
gwo -
multivariate -
testing
Finding Out-Of-Sync Packages Across Servers With Fabric
by Corey Oordt • Published 1 Dec 2010
We have several servers that are supposed to have the same packages installed, but often get out of sync due over time. To make it easier to find these out-of-sync packages and servers, I wrote a quick fabric script to do the checking for me.
App-Centric Django Development Part 2: App Factory
by Corey Oordt • Published 28 Nov 2010
Django makes it easy to start an app with the command ./manage.py startapp. However the app template that it creates is very simple and it creates it within the current project. We need to make the process of creating an independent app that easy, with a much better template.
application -
development -
django -
python
App-Centric Django Development Part 1: Introduction
by Corey Oordt • Published 23 Nov 2010
We’ve created many web sites at The Washington Times, many were just speculative, and most are not around today. In order to prototype a web site quickly, we developed a set of habits that make it easier. I call it “app-centric Django development”.
application -
development -
django -
python
Django Alphabet Filter Released With International Character Support
by Corey Oordt • Published 28 Jul 2010
My previous post about the alphabet filter explained the first take at creating the alphabet filter. There were several issues, especially with international character sets, so we have revised the code to fix the issues and made it installable via PyPI.
admin -
django -
filter -
opensource -
python
Creating an Alphabetical Filter in Django’s Admin
by Corey Oordt • Published 15 Jul 2010
Do you have lots of alphabetical data to sort through? This alphabetical filter works with any set of characters and is integrated with the admin like the date hierarchy.
admin -
django -
filter -
opensource -
python
Loading Templates Based on Request Headers in Django
by Corey Oordt • Published 17 Feb 2010
We have been experimenting with A/B testing using Google’s Website Optimizer. The tool is very nice, but we ran into issues with A/B testing in pages with dynamic content. Website Optimizer is really geared for optimizing static pages and elements (like sign-up pages). You have to put the HTML for A and B versions in Website Optimizer up front. That is fine for some CSS changes or button element changes, but not very useful in changing an item whose content is variable
How We Create and Deploy Sites Fast With Virtualenv and Django
by Corey Oordt • Published 8 Jan 2010
As we discovered some specific tools, we were able to create a workflow for creating, deploying and maintaining sites quickly and easily using Django.
deployment -
django -
python -
virtualenv
What a Difference a Year Makes
by Corey Oordt • Published 6 Jan 2010
The end of the year makes me reminisce about all that happened in the past 12 months. Web development at The Washington Times has changed dramatically, both in technology and process.
django -
opensource -
python
Django Object Permissions Proof of Concept
by Corey Oordt • Published 10 Dec 2009
In the process of refactoring an app, we realized that we needed a general purpose, object-level (or row-level) permission system. So one thing lead to another and it built one. Because of the complexity of object-level or row-level permissions, we wanted to get feedback on the current proof-of-concept from the Web’s best and brightest: the Django developer community.
django -
opensource -
permissions -
python
Request for Comments: Auto-Installation of Apps in Django
by Corey Oordt • Published 15 Sep 2009
Lately we’ve come across a bit of an issue with dependencies. We use pip and virtualenv for our projects and it works great for installing Python dependencies. However it is not so great if the dependency is a Django pluggable application. There is more you have to do
Training Video of the Week
by Corey Oordt • Published 26 Feb 2009
Training Video of the Week (2/25/09): “Becoming a Software Testing Expert”
Washington Times Releases Open Source Projects
by Corey Oordt • Published 19 Feb 2009
The Washington Times has always focused on content. After careful review, we determined that the best way to have the top tools to produce and publish that content is to release the source code of our in-house tools and encourage collaboration.
Training Video of the Week
by Corey Oordt • Published 12 Feb 2009
Every week at the Washington Times we have a training session that includes watching and discussing a video. Here is the video for 2/11/2009.
django -
performance -
scaling
Create a Stand-Alone Django Documentation Browser
by Corey Oordt • Published 9 Feb 2009
Sometimes it is nice to have the Django Documentation in a browser that doesn’t quit every time you quit or change browsers.
Training Video of the Week
by Corey Oordt • Published 29 Jan 2009
Every week at the Washington Times we have a training session that includes watching and discussing a video. Here is the video for 1/28/2009.
git -
versioncontrol -
video
Training Video of the Week
by Corey Oordt • Published 26 Jan 2009
Every week at the Washington Times we have a training session that includes watching and discussing a video. Here is the video for 1/23/2009. It was late due to illness.
Training Video of the Week
by Corey Oordt • Published 15 Jan 2009
Every week at the Washington Times we have a training session that includes watching and discussing a video. Here is the video for 1/14/2009.
Generic Collections in Django
by Corey Oordt • Published 12 Jan 2009
Sometimes you need to create a Generic Many-to-Many relation and edit it in the admin. Here is a way to do it by overriding the InlineModelAdmin, some Javascript and some new templates.
How I Set Up My Development Mac
by Corey Oordt • Published 26 Dec 2008
Starting a new job means setting up a new computer. With a clean slate, a blank canvas, a fresh start, if you will, I decided to document what I really need and use.
development -
django -
mac