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Django Python
January 26, 2025 / January 26, 2025 by Brian Kennedy | Leave a Comment
Running Django in a VS Code dev container is a great way to standardize your development environment while leveraging the power of Docker. With a dev container, you can eliminate “it works on my machine” problems and create a portable development setup. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the process of setting up Django […]
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September 5, 2023 / January 27, 2025 by Brian Kennedy | Leave a Comment
Welcome to the world of Python! If you’re transitioning from another programming language or if you’ve been dabbling in various languages and decided to give Python a deeper look, there are some essential quirks and features you should be aware of. Python, often lauded for its readability and elegance, does have its unique characteristics. In […]
WordPress
May 16, 2013 / January 26, 2025 by Brian Kennedy | 6 Comments on WordPress: Movable Type and TypePad Import Plugin + Image Downloader
A coworker of mine has been keeping a blog with Typepad for several years now. As of recently he decided he wanted to switch to using WordPress on one of our servers. This is usually easy; you export your blog from the original site and import it using the appropriate plugin. WordPress provides great plugins […]
Game Design
September 5, 2012 / January 26, 2025 by Brian Kennedy | Leave a Comment
Here’s an HTML5 experiment in progress… HTML5’s canvas element is pretty powerful and easy to use. Rendering images, shapes, and text typically does not require a lot of code. So I decided it would be fun to build a simple javascript gaming engine to see what I could do with the canvas element in a […]
jQuery
August 3, 2012 / January 26, 2025 by Brian Kennedy | Leave a Comment
I was looking for one of those javascript date counters we’ve all seen a million times and came across a bunch. Each had its own unique twist but not too many were flexible. I realized it would be way more fun to just write my own. In doing so, I wound up with a wonderful […]
