http://boomby.com django & stuff Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:25:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I'd better blow the cobwebs out, it's been 18 months. Lately I've been brewing up a contraption that will network boot ESXi machines. At the moment, it's using gpxe + gpxelinux to boot via http, and a python http server to serve up the pxe boot gubbins required to start ESXi ... http://boomby.com/?p=8 I've made a dashboard widget for OSX that monitors the dreamhost status blog. It's very simple. Snap it up here... http://boomby.com/?p=6 I also wanted to add an iCal feed to my Django website. I did it like this. In my view, I set up the mime type thusly: response = HttpResponse(mimetype='text/calendar') I figured that minutes and seconds were fairly unimportant for my application, and the dates would be quite ... http://boomby.com/?p=4 On my Django website mactactic.com, I needed to sus out which country a visitor was coming from. I found MaxMind (which is a commercial product, but has a GPL'd library in C and Python), and it seemed okay... But it was beyond painful to install in a shared hosting environment. ... http://boomby.com/?p=3