Etcetera

New Events Section on Mochilla.com

In Etcetera on 9 March 2010 tagged Eagle Rock, Events, Mochilla, Python with 3 comments

We just got up a new events section for Mochilla.com. I added a ‘date’ column to the existing documents mysql table and an interface to be able to add/edit events via the browser. It took about a day and half to complete.

Memory Optimizations for Mochilla.com

In Etcetera on 4 March 2010 tagged Eagle Rock, Mochilla, Python with no comments

I just spent the last two days optimizing the Python backend for the Mochilla.com website. We are running the website on a 256MB VPS at Slicehost. They have been getting a larger number of hits the last week because of their new Timeless video they are releasing, and several people have been embedding the videos [...]

Detecting Mobile Devices and Flash with JavaScript

In Etcetera on 26 February 2010 tagged Downtown LA, JavaScript, Walldogs with 2 comments

For the Walldogs website we ran into some strange issues dealing with Flash. This is a non-issue for browsers that support the HTMLVideoElement, however not every browser does yet, so we must deal with the reality.
Usually when you put an object or embed tag for Flash in the DOM in Internet Explorer it will prompt [...]

New VPS Server

In Etcetera on 24 February 2010 with no comments

I have just moved my VPS which hosts the websites braydon.com, universvideo.org, and my mail server. If everything goes as planned it should be a seamless transition; it took two days to make sure everything was moved correctly. The DNS information should all be updating now.
Update (2/25/2010): Installed Postgrey, for email greylisting with Postfix. Tested [...]