The importance of randomness in online security
I recently visited the website random.org, which is a free/fee-based generator of random numbers. It's been around for a long time - since 1998. It made me revisit the ...
How to keep all your websites in sync with scraping technology
Would you like to pull in the header and/or footer from a related but separate website for use on your own pages? Here's how.
Using HubSpot’s Custom CRM Cards Without an Integration
The marketing software company HubSpot offers a nifty feature called "custom CRM cards." The idea is that a HubSpot dashboard can send a GET request to an API that you ...
Implementing dependency management with Python Poetry
One of the biggest issues with Python (our preferred development language) is dependency management. Any individual deployment can result in minor differences in the versions of the files and libraries ...
Healthcare content too complex, a study
A new study accepted for publication in the British Journal of General Practice asserts that the majority of general practice websites contain content well above the recommended reading level ...
Make sure you always have the current copyright year in your footer
As Web developers we are sticklers for website details. That's why I always look at the copyright year, often found in the footer of a page.
Whenever I go to ...
Migrate Away from cmsplugin-filer in a Few Easy Steps
Companion code for this post: https://github.com/ImaginaryLandscape/deprecate_cmsplugin_filer
If you've been building projects using django CMS for any length of time, chances are you're familiar with Divio's cmsplugin-filer application which provided image, link, ...
Upgrade Django 1.11 to 2.2 and django CMS 3.4 to 3.7
Through the use of the Poetry project, incremental changes, and a little luck, the Django 1.11 -> 2.2 and django CMS 3.4 -> 3.7 upgrade was a success, but not without some excessively harsh profanity.
The Key(s) to Client Collaboration
Imaginary has implemented two high tech tools to foster a decidedly low tech essential for success - frequent and productive client collaboration.
Tuning Site Search for Covid-19
The recent spike in usage of the term covid-19 introduced some inconsistent results in Imaginary’s custom site search engine, iScraper, a tool which utilizes Elasticsearch as its indexing engine. We’ll ...