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Using Django Inside the Tornado Web Server
Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk, Using Django in Non-Standard Ways (slides in PDF) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado …
Customizing the Django Admin at EuroDjangoCon 2009
Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at EuroDjangoCon about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the …
Highlighting Named Anchors with jQuery
I’ve always disliked the way named anchors (<a href="#name">...</a>) behave in browsers. It jumps your viewport to a different part …
Django Best Practices
This post got a bit long-winded, skip to the project announcment if you prefer. One of the things I love …
Open Source Government
While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative, recovery.org, I noticed something of interest. <script type="text/javascript"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, { …
Satchmo Screencast
Satchmo is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like …
Simple & Easy Deployment with Fabric and Virtualenv
In the process of prepping Gondola CMS for public consumption, we’ve grown from having a developer (me), to having a …
On Static Media and Django
We all know not to serve static media (images, CSS, Javascript, etc.) in production directly from Django. Thankfully, Django gives …
Serving Django Projects (Revisited)
After reading the comments on my last post on the subject, I realized there was definitely some room for improvement …
Introduction to Gondola
Gondola is our content management system built on top of Django. I briefly showed it off during my DjangoCon Lightning …