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Nice site. Not that it matters but I'm always curious, what's it built with?

Python, Django, jQuery and Highcharts

... which I had just discovered on your effective and well-designed alt-resume page:

I love how you have thumbnail links to each project next to icons of the languages/frameworks/tools you used to build them.

Also like the resume site. Would be nice to see a small description of the project under the title.

Thanks, I appreciate it. Descriptions are on my TODO list, but have been on the back burner in favor of more projects. I will have to bump up their priority.

FYI, we run an app that used to use Highcharts too, but we discovered flot and never looked back: http://code.google.com/p/flot/ Wanted to share in case that's useful to you, too! (In particular, it will come in handy if you ever need to develop a web app for commercial purposes, as Highcharts has a tricky licensing scheme for web apps.)

Frankly, having used flot for http://burntbrunch.github.com/Silk-Rabbit-Hole/html/index.ht..., I wouldn't recommend it. It was a complete pain to do tooltips, since flot insists on drawing them with divs.

gRaphael looks a lot more customizable.

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