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Installing Mezzanine on Webfaction with Apache and WSGI

Apache, Django, Mezzanine, Python
May18

When I first created MobilePebbles , the Mobile Theme Generator was installed on the primary domain. I soon decided to place the generator on a sub-domain and install Mezzanine on the primary. The site is hosted by Webfaction. Although Webfaction has install scripts for quite a few apps (Drupal, Django, etc), they do not currently have one for Mezzanine. But, without too much trouble (thanks to the tools that are availed to Webfaction customers), I was able to install Mezzanine on Webfaction.

Much of the information in this post I found by installing Mezzanine On Ubuntu (and from documentation that I found in Webfactions docs.

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Installing Mezzanine on Ubuntu with Apache and mod_wsgi

Apache, Django, Mezzanine, Python, Ubuntu
May18

Although there are many advantages to installing Mezzanine using Python’s virtual environment, I decided against it. I already have Django installed on Apache using mod_wsgi, so my Ubuntu install is already primed. Although I followed the basic steps as discussed in a previous post (Setting up Django with Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 11.10), there were a bit more steps involved with setting up Mezzanine – especially as it relates to how and where to serve static files.

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JQuery Plugin: Mobile Page Switcher

Ajax, Javascript, JQuery, Mobile, plugins
May18

After I created the mobile sub-domain for GrasshopperPebbles, I needed a solution that would allow a user to switch to the mobile view at any time. I prefer giving the user the option to switch to a mobile view rather than a device-sniffing approach. So I created simple jQuery Plugin (gpMobilePageSwitcher) that displays an icon and a link to the mobile view. But the plugin doesn’t just take the user to the home page of the mobile sub-domain, it takes the user to the mobile view of the same page they are viewing.

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Mobile Theme Generator for WordPress and Tumblr

Ajax, Django, Javascript, JQuery, Mobile
May18

A few months ago, I downloaded a mobile theme for WordPress in order to create a mobile site for GrasshopperPebbles. While updating the template, I thought about automating the development process so that future releases would be easier. So I decided to create an open source project – the mobile theme generator. The generator displays mobile sites using jQuery Mobile. In fact, the generator itself was developed using Django and jQuery Mobile (the original theme used jQuery Mobile). I did think that it an odd solution to create PHP files using Python, but it turned out to be a great solution.

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WordPress: Sharing database content between primary and sub-domains

Wordpress
May18

After I created my mobile WordPress theme using the the Mobile Theme Generator that I created on MobilePebbles.com, I had to figure out the best way to share the database between my primary domain and the mobile sub-domain (m.grasshopperpebbles.com). There are a couple of strategies for switching between a desktop view and a mobile view. I decided that I didn’t want to do an automatic switch to the mobile sub-domain by using a mobile device sniffing method. I think that it is a better strategy to let the user decide whether they want to switch to a mobile view. So I set up a sub-domain and created a link at the top of my site that points to my mobile view.

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Using Multiple Databases in Multiple Environments with Zend Framework

Zend Framework
Apr14

I have been using Zend Framework quite extensively during the last few years. On a recent project, we had 8-9 separate applications integrated into the a single website. Many of these applications used a different a databases (Oracle, MySql, etc.), so we had to set up Zend Framework to be able to connect to any database at any given time.

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jQuery Plugin: gpImageRotate – Create Portfolios, Carousels, Galleries, and more

Ajax, JQuery, plugins
Oct14

A few years ago, I created the jQuery plugin imBannerRotater. I have tweaked this plugin for various projects over the years, but I recently made so many changes to the plugin that I decided to create a new plugin: gpImageRotate. The code in the new plugin is more optimized than the original. And, not only did I enhance the existing functionality, I added 4-5 additional image rotation options. Lastly, one of the major reasons that I decided to create a new plugin is that I am working on a Drupal module based upon the plugin and so I changed the code so that the Drupal module could easily interact with it – so the naming convention for many of the styles is more verbose than the original imBannerRotater plugin.

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