Colophon, a listing of the software that makes this site possible

This site is written by Clint Ecker. To learn more about Clint, visit the about page.

This site was built using the Django Web Framework which is itself written in Python. Several pre-built Django applications were used to make the development of this blog a breeze, those include:

django-tagging by Jonathan Buchanan & Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Provides excellent data models, helpful model fields, template tags, generic views, and a tag manager to add tags to any of your Django models.
typogrify by Christian Metts. Provides a number of typographical filters for your site.
django-basic-blog by Nathan Borror. Provides simple Post and Category data models and helpful views.
Django contrib applications:
- django-sitemaps for providing a Google Sitemap
- django-humanize to make my numbers more accessible
- django-flatpages for most of the informational pages on the site
- django-markup for the Python version of John Gruber’s excellent Markdown filter
- django-admin for the infamous Django admin interface
- django-syndication for all of the RSS and Atom feeds on this site

All of these are tied together by a bunch of code and templates I wrote, and which Django made extremely easy! My Django blog application is deployed through Apache and mod_python, and uses simple caching/performance techniques such as ETags, expire headers, a file system cache, and gzip compression.

On the desktop I use a 24-inch iMac running Leopard and TextMate to write all my code. Other applications I find useful to my profession include:

MarsEdit, a blogging client
Adobe Photoshop, a graphics editor
Transmit, an S/FTP application
Firefox & FireBug, for web browsing and debugging, respectively
Quicksilver for launching applications
Twitterrific for keeping track of friends and networking
Colloquy for chatting with other developers and friends. Stop by #django on irc.freenode.net some time!