Coming up with a company name and domain
The process to produce names and find good domain names are subject to many variables, opinions, strategies and criteria. The right name depends on a lot of factors. Some folks, in order to avoid being...
View ArticleEduquia, the platform for enterprise online training courses
Hello! We are sorry we haven't been posting for a while, so it would appear that we have been idle... On the contrary! We went very busy with one of our most beloved projects, Eduquia. While we...
View ArticlePartnership with DadNeos
Nota: este contenido está también disponible en españolWe are glad to announce that last week, as a first huge step towards our mission of becoming the first and foremost tech accelerator in Chile and...
View ArticleFrom LIKE to Full-Text Search (part II)
If you missed it, read the first post of this series What do you do when you need to filter a long list of records for your users? That was the question we set to answer in a previous post. We saw...
View ArticleRnovo - Protect your business, register your trademark online
Yesterday, Rnovo, one of our most beloved creatures, just emerged from Nomadblue's kitchen, after having been cooked with love for months. This project has been very special in terms of design. It...
View Articledjango-chile-payments
Nota: este contenido está también disponible en español If you have ever implemented support for a payment broker in your project there's a chance that you have come across brokers that are a delight...
View ArticleFrom LIKE to Full-Text Search (part I)
What do you do when you need to filter a long list of records for your users? We love and use Django so, most of the time, it is just as simple as:>>> Entry.objects.filter(title='Man bites...
View Articledjango-nomad-notifier
We have been busy lately working on some projects (still under development) that required a notification system for the different events triggered by the users activity. You know, the kind of...
View ArticleIT development: a service, not a product
In the tech landscape, startups are created everyday, shaping the dreams of entrepreneurs around the world aiming to solve some particular problem, ease certain pain suffered by an industry, or...
View ArticleFirefox, cross-domain fonts and Amazon CORS
We recently run into an issue with Firefox not loading fonts through the @font-face CSS statement. Everything was looking OK on our local environments but once we deployed to a live site this browser...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics tracking code into Django projects, the easy way
Creating a pluggable Django app to just embed the GA code seemed overkill to me, so I created this post as a quick reference for next Django web projects. The idea is creating a system that will add...
View ArticleUseful Packages for Django projects (part 1)
This is the first of a series of posts about which libraries and tools we use for our Django development. Almost every Nomadblue project will have the following packages in their requirements.txt pip...
View ArticleHola Startups!
Hola! This is the first post after a really freaking busy past year, and what's more important, this is the first blog post of Nomadblue as a brand new development company! We expect to disrupt the way...
View ArticleAsynchronous email delivery with Django, Amazon SES, Celery and Supervisord
A few weeks ago, I released a simple Django app to manage models for simple newsletters. The package itself is blatantly useless if we do not use it on a project that integrates with other parts, so I...
View Articledjango-propaganda: simple newsletter app
Hey you, political leader, founder of a new religion or spiritual guru! With this application, your acolytes will receive the official organizational propaganda pamphlets right into their inboxes. Keep...
View ArticlereStructuredText on GitHub wikis using virtualenv
When doing documentation work, be it regular documentation, how-tos, or wikis, I always use reStructuredText syntax if I have the chance, so eventually if I have to provide documentation in other...
View ArticleTranslated text images for lazy programmers
In a previous post about django translations in this blog, I shared how to achieve a quick system that allowed me to manage translations stored in models and served using a template tag. In this post I...
View ArticleIT development: a service, not a product
In the tech landscape, startups are created everyday, shaping the dreams of entrepreneurs around the world aiming to solve some particular problem, ease certain pain suffered by an industry, or...
View ArticleFirefox, cross-domain fonts and Amazon CORS
We recently run into an issue with Firefox not loading fonts through the @font-face CSS statement. Everything was looking OK on our local environments but once we deployed to a live site this browser...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics tracking code into Django projects, the easy way
Creating a pluggable Django app to just embed the GA code seemed overkill to me, so I created this post as a quick reference for next Django web projects. The idea is creating a system that will add...
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