Big updates on pagegangster.com. We introduced the standalone product so people can download the entire e-catalogue and put it on a CD, their own webserver, an USB stick or whatever they want. We’re really excited about this launch, so go check out the new website and products. We also made a number of other changes making it possible to purchase a number of activations directly in the system. This is really good news for the customers looking for mass discounts.
Getting slightly technical for a moment, we learned a painful lesson regarding migrating data from one structure to another using the Django ORM. By mistake we tried to update a lot of models one by one. After waiting for over 90 minutes we rewrote that specific data migration in raw SQL and completed it in 3 minutes. I love the ORM but you have to be careful.
Seeing this update from a Django developers point of view the best news is that we’re not using wordpress for drive our main website. We can now concentrate on making the more hard core backend stuff. And besides some cache trouble it’s hard to beat wordpress in the usability game.
All comments are very welcome. Just comment here or send an email to info (at) pagegangster.com.
