Category: Projects - Craig Perler's Blog

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Deploying a Dockerized Django Application to Production

Discover how to efficiently deploy a Django web application using Docker, Gunicorn, and Nginx on DigitalOcean. Follow this comprehensive guide to set up your environment, configure your application, and ensure your web app is scalable and production-ready.

How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React

Figuring out how to set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL, and React can be a complex task, especially if you, like me, don’t really code much nowadays. The boilerplate effort…

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ProjectSHERPA: a startup retrospective

Over several years, while fully employed, some friends and I built a startup with whatever time we could scrape together. ProjectSHERPA was an imagining of what the tech recruiting marketplace could…

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Can Yelp Reviews Predict Real Estate Prices?

I took a Data Science class in my MBA program, and I was recently re-reading our final project write-up. The assignment was to take a complex data set, do some analysis on…

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A Side Project

My track record for posting here has been pretty poor the past 2 years. It’s tough to find time to write something interesting, let alone think up something interesting to…

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The Last 5 Years & Earlier Stuff

There is something special about Jason Robert Brown‘s musical, The Last 5 Years. We performed this at Dartmouth in 2004, and 8 years later, it’s still one of my go-to…

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Saintly Music

I’ve spent some time lately converting my old audio and video tapes to digital formats – things like family videos, concerts, etc… One of the tapes I found contains a…

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Unpacking Kozmo Jones

I’ve been holding onto this since 2006: a children’s poem about two of my now-gone dogs, Kozmo Jones and Angel. I sent this to several publishers back then, but no…

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GeoDate

When Android first came out, there was no mobile version of match.com or Facebook. In turn, I thought, wouldn’t be cool if there was a location-based profile matching application for…

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Bored with (Bulletin) Boards

Several years ago, I became somewhat obsessed with the idea that certain forms of digital communication mediums were lagging in their evolution relative to others. You would need Silverlight to…

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