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2007-12-08 20:25:12

How We Do It

Besides all the work we do, we also use a number of tools. We are big supporters of the open source stack. The rights given too us by the various open source licenses, allow us to develop value without the fear that someone can come and take away our tools. It also allows us to modify our stack as we see fit to make sure that our site runs the best it can. Closed source could also be though of as the codifying of a way of doing things. We believe that we should be able to do things the way we want. So, thats we use open source.

Now the stack we use starts with the metal. We don't actually own any metal. We lease some space from the wonderful company Dreamhost. I have used a number of affordable hosting companys, as well as owned my own hosted hardware. Dreamhost does a great job of balancing, my need to be in control, with my need to keep my hosting costs low, for now. I haven't done a whole ton of investigation into what Dreamhost uses for metal but I know they run linux.

On top of linux they run apache. On top of apache we run Django. We can delve farther into Django vs all the others later, but for now we like using mvc software etc, because it affords us a great ability change our minds. We run a mostly stock version of Django.

We use a couple of Django apps. django-registraiton, and django-tagging take over a lot of tedious work that we have written countless times before this, and don't want to write ever again.

On the client side we use jQuery. We also base our css grid system on a neat css librarie Blue Print.

fhew, That is a fairly complete recall of our open source code stack. Thats just the code though, we use a lot of ideas as well behind that scenes and I will talk more about that latter.

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