IT Milk: category

I wrote earlier this month about my dilemma with programming vs marketing. I can now share some general results since it’s nearly the end of the month.
Transforming from a web 2.0-ish website with cool features built with Django to a complete sales letter incorporating some of the previous features tripled my affiliate commissions for [...]

The simplicity of Django continues to amaze me. Doing a www redirect is as simple as going into your settings.py file and adding:
PREPEND_WWW = True
That’s it!
Prepending www to your domain (e.g. www.itmilk.com instead of itmilk.com) is a basic SEO factor to avoid duplicate copies of your webpages.

For an e-commerce store I’m building with Satchmo, I need to add dynamic boxes–editable through the admin interface–on the front page of the site. For instance, I want the client to be able to edit not just the featured items on the front page, but also other smaller elements on that page like the welcome [...]

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 [...]

I recently teamed up with two programmers to leverage the current trend in social media. This means researching social networks like Facebook and Myspace and developing custom applications on those platforms. There is a tremendous amount of potential on social platforms because of the large, well-defined user bases and all the interesting sorts of personal [...]

Network with other Facebook developers at Penn State. Meet a programmer who can create your dream Facebook application. Pitch your product idea and get valuable feedback from people with the business or technical know-how.
The Facebook Developer Garage is coming to our campus in March at the Lion Launch Pad. The actual date will be announced [...]

I’ve always wanted to use MediaWiki for a website, and I finally launched a site called Tontine Book with it. MediaWiki is the famous open-source software that powers Wikipedia, and it is undoubtedly the most powerful wiki software available. I love the concept of creating huge content websites through user collaboration. Compare this to the [...]

My favorite and most successful current project is Tontine Nation, which is built on the Ning social network platform. My site was recently featured on the official Ning blog as one of the successful Ning projects. Tontine is an upcoming reality tv show that is offering the largest prize money in the history of reality [...]

When he’s not chasing Asian chicks or rocking out to emo music, Steve likes to be a programmer. One of the leading software development interns at Pepperjam, Steve is without-a-doubt one of the rising stars in the College of IST at Penn State University.
After nagging Steve to start a Wordpress blog about programming and web [...]

Like most webmasters out there, I run Google Adsense on several of my websites. I don’t make nearly as much as I’d like to, although I get dozens of clicks each day. How much you make through Adsense really depends on the theme of your website. For instance, a real estate blog is going to [...]