Welcome!
Thank you for stopping by my humble website. I hope you have an enjoyable experience here.
What is Code Koala?
This Web site is a home for my programming projects and other nerdy hobbies. My blog articles tend to revolve around Linux and programming, though some random "personal" entries make their way in from time to time.
Code Koala is an alias that I've taken upon myself after many joyous years with another nickname. The reason I switched to "code koala" is mostly because I got bored of my previous name. Obviously, I will continue to use both of these nicknames.
In the past, the information on this Web site was found at vcboard.net, but I think I will begin another project to put that Web site back to its intended use.
Who am I?
My name is Josh VanderLinden, and I'm currently studying computer information systems and accounting at Brigham Young University–Idaho. I only have another year left of my studies (if everything goes according to plan). If I were to sum myself up into a single sentence, it would probably be something like this: a happily married computer nerd who loves the outdoors but is allergic to most everything, so he spends most of his waking hours playing on computers. If you're looking for more in-depth information about me, check out the page that is dedicated to such nonsense.
Latest Articles
Posted 3 days, 22 hours ago by wheaties
I've been working on updating all of my articles to use ReStructured text formatting these past couple of days. Basically ever since I started using Django on my personal sites, I used Textile formatting to make my articles look pretty, and it treated me well. However, I found...
Posted 5 days, 10 hours ago by wheaties
The Django team has once again announced a new release of their absolutely amazing framework. Right on schedule, version 1.0.1 has been made available to the world. This release packs over two hundred fixes over the original Django 1.0 codebase. I'm in the process of upgrading my...
Posted 6 days, 2 hours ago by wheaties
I've posted some screenshots for my django-pendulum application!
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by wheaties
Here's yet another application to help you make your site more useful to your users. django-reploc is a "representative locator" for Django-powered Web sites. It uses the Google Maps API to offer your users an interactive map of your representatives, vendors, friends, houses, etc.
I built this application to...
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by wheaties
Up until a couple weeks ago, I had never installed a FavIcon on any of my Django sites. I never really thought about it until one day I enabled the SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS setting for one of my sites. As soon as I did that, I was able to track...
