Patrick Beeson

Entry archive

• How to upgrade to Django Comments 1.0

  This entry describes how to upgrade from the pre-1.0 Django Comments app to the new version.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • Sept. 7, 2008
  • 10:01 a.m.
  • Six comments

• Open jobs with Scripps Interactive Group

  This entry lists three open positions with Scripps Interactive Group in Knoxville, TN.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • Sept. 5, 2008
  • 4:31 p.m.
  • No comments

• MSF Basic Rider Course teaches safety, skills

  • Patrick Beeson
  • Aug. 29, 2008
  • 8:16 a.m.
  • No comments

• How to create user-specific admins in Django

  This entry describes how to create a user-specific admin in Django using the newly merged newForms branch into Django trunk for a class I'm teaching at UT this fall.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • Aug. 11, 2008
  • 7:35 a.m.
  • Two comments

• YPKnox.com: Knoxville's newest Django site

  This entry describes the launch of the redesigned, redeveloped Young Professionals of Knoxville Web site. It's also my third, and latest, Django project to go live.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • Aug. 2, 2008
  • 10:52 a.m.
  • Two comments

• How Django is good for SEO

  This entry explains the SEO benefits of Django, including its URLs configuration, database API, sitemaps function and templating system.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • July 28, 2008
  • 9:34 a.m.
  • Three comments

• 'Practical' tips for working with Django

  This entry describes three useful techniques for handling situations in building a Django application.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • July 10, 2008
  • 5 p.m.
  • 13 comments

• Online journalism skills: then and now

  This entry compares my skills while working as an online journalist to those of online journalists in North Carolina newsrooms, as collected by UNC Assistant Professor Ryan Thornburg.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • July 10, 2008
  • 8:06 a.m.
  • No comments

• Twittering newspaper layoffs

  This entry details the play-by-play Tweets from William Hartnett of The Palm Beach Post on his newspapers' mass layoffs annouced today.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • June 25, 2008
  • 9:04 p.m.
  • Five comments

• Employers, offer incentives for cycling to work

  This entry challenges businesses and local government to offer employees incentives to commute to work by bike.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • June 14, 2008
  • 10:57 a.m.
  • 12 comments

• Resources for Django on WebFaction

  This entry provides links to the best information on using Django on WebFaction from their forum, blog and knowledgebase.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • June 9, 2008
  • 9:48 p.m.
  • Six comments

• How to live in Knoxville

  This entry describes my experience living in Knoxville, TN and how others might do the same.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • June 3, 2008
  • 8:07 a.m.
  • One comment

• How I 'Rickrolled' Rootclip

  This entry describes my experience creating and submitting a video for the collaborative video-story Web site Rootclip.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • May 15, 2008
  • 9:12 a.m.
  • No comments

• Using Amazon S3 with Django

  This entry describes why I chose to use Amazon's S3 for serving this site's media files, and how to set it up for your Django project using Adrian Holovaty's instructions.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • May 13, 2008
  • 8:34 p.m.
  • Seven comments

• Scripps launches video player update

  This entry describes the latest version of the Scripps video player.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • May 10, 2008
  • 10:49 a.m.
  • Two comments

• Newspapers' reverse-publishing idea flawed

  This entry addresses the concept of reverse publishing as it relates to newspapers, and shows how it is flawed.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • May 4, 2008
  • 10:32 a.m.
  • Six comments

• Knoxville drivers: How to pass a cyclist

  This entry describes how Knoxville drivers should pass cyclists on the road safely.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • April 27, 2008
  • 11:44 a.m.
  • 10 comments

• How project management is like reporting

  This entry describes how a project manager and reporter use many of the same skills in their given career.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • April 25, 2008
  • 4:52 p.m.
  • Two comments

• Commuting by bike in Knoxville

  This entry describes my experience commuting to work by bike in Knoxville with a guide to doing so yourself.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • April 19, 2008
  • 5:37 p.m.
  • Five comments

• Portland: Uncommonly good food, vistas

  This entry describes my recent trip to Portland, OR with my finance Lindsay.

  • Patrick Beeson
  • April 13, 2008
  • 10:33 p.m.
  • 14 comments

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