So I haven't been very good about keeping up on this blog. I guess it's because I haven't been in the habit of writing the past several years. Back in the day, though, I was quite good at it. It's also due to the fact that I've been struggling to find the "perfect topic" to write about each time. I've felt the need to maintain a certain level of professionalism, as this website also (as it currently stands) serves as a gateway to my Infonate Web Services company. At some point, when the time/financial resources are available, I'll completely separate that out.

Site Description

The Ultimate Gear Review is a website dedicated to honest and in-depth reviews of tactical and adventure gear and training from professionals in the field and everyday users. It is a community effort to join people with similar interests together to create a place of reference to allow users to make informed decisions on equipment and training expenditures. In addition, the Ultimate Gear Review seeks to contribute to the advancement of gear and training by acting as a link between users and developers, thus leading to better products.

Source: http://www.ultimategearreview.com/about/

Development Overview

The application that powers ultimategearreview.com was written using Django with MySQL as it's database. Django was chosen after evaluating several options (primarily Drupal and Zend Framework). The layout (HTML, CSS) of the site had already been developed by another party and it was my contention that the path of least resistance would be to leave as much of that unchanged as possible.

Alright so in my last post I mentioned that I finally launched the django-based site I have been working on for the last couple of months; and now here it is:

http://www.ultimategearreview.com

The design of the site was done by Logoworks before I came onto the project and I have no affiliation with them whatsoever. But I did design and develop the entire back end of the system using Django, a web framework built on the Python programming language.

The last couple of months I've been working on a new website using Django. I'm back to working with Drupal, and that was always my intention. This was my first Django project and I have to say I really enjoyed developing on the platform which, for this particular project, I feel was a great fit. Python, the language on which Django is built, is a beautiful programming language.