IT Milk: archive

Last year, around this time, I wondered how Dave Smith obtained his course data for the Penn State scheduling website LionSchedules.com. Without an official API that serves the data, he would have to manually scrape the Schedule of Courses.
I forgot about this thought until recently Alan deLevie (Sophomore, Political Science) mentioned to me his own [...]

I am currently struggling to set up Django on a MediaTemple dv 3.0 server. I failed to find any resources on Google that worked for me, so I combed through the private MediaTemple user forums. I found the following forum posting to be useful, so I’m re-posting it here so that it’s publicly accessible via [...]

We’ve been using Beanstalk for version control (BEST subversion hosting interface) and Basecamp for general project management, and they really drive our productivity up! Both have monthly fees but the expenses are well worth the time saved. This is all in preparation for a new direction we are taking with Meezik.

We’ve used Calpop to host our dedicated server for about four months now. The server uptime has been decent, the customer service via phone and email so-so, and an online customer service interface non-existent.
The real problem with Calpop arose when we decided to move off of their server. With over a week remaining on [...]

I’ve been having problems with the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE variable. For instance, I was following the tutorial in the Django Book and stumbled across the following error:
ImportError: Could not import settings ‘mysite.settings’ (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named mysite.settings
The trick is not simply
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings
but also to create a .pth file within [...]