grep.ro

I just finished moving the site to SliceHost. I'm sharing a virtual server (slice) with Tudor because a whole slice is too big and expensive for either of us. SliceHost is nice, I really like their simple, no-frills approach to hosting. Their target audience is people who know their stuff, the site and the administration interface are minimal yet effective, and things just work.

I've been reminded yet again that DNS is a weird, complicated, easy-to-get-wrong thing. I was setting up some test domain names for Tudor and all of a sudden I would be getting SERVFAIL on some clients, while on several others things still worked. I've been managing the DNS for iem.pub.ro for a few years now, but I'll switch over grep.ro to SliceHost.

Django is cool. It keeps surprising me, it's like the developers thought of everything. Yesterday I needed a text filter to convert newlines to <br> - yep, it was there. Another filter to escape plaintext to be html-safe? It was there too. They even made a filter to limit the number of words in a string, properly closing any open HTML tags. Little things, but they're right there when you need them. I want to write a longer post about django one of these days, it deserves it. :)

I'm trying a little experiment: I'm linking to a friend's site. Click it if you're curious. :)