Posts for "Web Development"

  • What User Experience is All About

    Posted in Random, Web Development by Florin on May. 29th 2008 @ 11:58 a.m. EEST

    I've just stumbled upon KnickerPicker on the del.icio.us popular homepage and despite the web site's obvious (as in sexy) interestingness, I think this is what user experience should be all about.

    If you've found yourself in the position of having to buy a gift for your girlfriend/wife and shopping for female lingerie seemed too awkward, or you didn't feel like trusting the classical online catalogs presentation, this might come to your help.

    0 comment(s) | Related tags: UX, e-commerce, flash

  • JavaScript Fun

    Posted in Web Development by Florin on May. 23rd 2008 @ 11:19 a.m. EEST

    What some people manage to achieve with just JavaScript never ceases to amaze me. After first seeing the DHTML Lemmings a while go, I've come across the 14kB Mario, a couple of weeks ago, and today found out there's even a JS Mario Kart.

    0 comment(s) | Related tags: games, javascript

  • Deploying a Django website on Ubuntu@SliceHost

    Posted in Django, Web Development by Florin on Apr. 30th 2008 @ noon EEST

    For hosting this web site I've signed up for a SliceHost 256MB VPS slice. The price is unbeatable among the VPS hosting providers ($20/month) and even better than this, SH slices support the recently released Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Yay!) :D.

    I've chosen to have my Django app served by Apache2 and mod_python (static resources included) and rely on PostgreSQL 8 for the DB side. ...

    1 comment(s) | Related tags: django, python, slicehost, websites