Jason Hasselkus

My new Django blog is mostly concentrating on money issues and how the normal person can save money and invest. However, that’s probably not why your reading this post, your probably more interested in what the requirements of this blog are going to be and how I built it. So to start off, I’m using the latest build of Django, which is 0.96.1 as of this writing. In addition to Django, I’m also using another framework, and it’s called blueprintcss, which is how I control my style via css. [Read more →]

Ok, so this might take some explaining, but what I’ve done is go and create a new blog entirely dedicated to getting myself out of dept and how I might start investing and saving for my kids college education. I figured dedicated a blog to it, instead of writing about it here would be better, since most of the time the dialog here might hide some of the important aspects of that blog. Basically the “good” content might get hidden in between the tech content I usually put here.

So as always, I built this blog with my favorite framework, Django. As I’ve become more comfortable with Django and what it has to offer, I was able to put this site up in a few days. However, I must tell you that it’s still a work in progress and I’m going to keep track of the progress here. I believe I should be able to build this blog out completely in the next month or so, and I plan on tracking the progress here. If you want to read about how I’m going to keep myself out of dept and turn a new leaf, well then your just going to have read the blog now aren’t you? You can read and see everything I talk about by going here: www.mycashcushion.com.

Well, it’s been a while since I lasted posted, so I thought I might give you a bit of a checkup. Actually there isn’t anything worth putting here, besides the following:

• I turned 33 last month
• I’m in a Rock Band
• I’ve started yet another Django project
• I’ve purchased a new embroidery machine, which allows me to embroider the hell out of anything.

So that’s about it, what’s been going on with everyone else? Kidding, more about each of those later, but I also uploaded new pictures of the kids. Jaden and I went to the Red Bull Air Race today, and had one heck of a time. It truly was a fun day for all. Check out my latest pictures over at flickr. My flickr address is as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hasselkus/

Well kinda. I got Django all setup and I even created my model. Now it’s time to start doing the magic of styling and of course creating some content. The intitial phase was to create a “blog” style of site that would allow me to post “A Shirt of the Day”. It’s more or less a cynical saying of the day, but you get the picture. So by the end of the day I fully expect to have a complete site up which will allow the user to see the following:

• A Shirt of the Day
• The ability to Search
• styled pages
• Contact Form

Since I’m using Django, all of this should be pretty easy, but still, I need to get cracking in order to have anything on the site. Eventually I’m going to need to create some flat pages, but for right now I’m going to be pulling everything from my model. You can visit the progress of the site, by going here www.cynic-tees.com.

I gave in the other night and sat down and watched “Dancing with the Stars” with Yvonne. Mostly the show is a real drag and I don’t get what all the excitement is about. With that being said, I did notice a similar and somewhat confusing “Idol” kind of moment on this show. Not that I watch American Idol that much either, but both of these shows do something that I find odd. [Read more →]