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This post got a bit long-winded,

skip to the project announcment

if you prefer.

One of the things I love about Python and Django is the philosophy that

there is one obvious way to do things

. Standards make it …

While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative,

recovery.org

, I noticed something of interest.

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Drupal

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Satchmo

is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like ZenCart and

OSC

ommerce, Satchmo’s ease of customization make it a joy to work with.

Unfortunately, all the features can …

In the process of prepping

Gondola

CMS

for public consumption, we’ve grown from having a developer (me), to having a development team. One pain point that quickly arose was the amount of time it took for new developers to setup …

We all know not to serve static media (images,

CSS

, Javascript, etc.) in production directly from Django. Thankfully, Django gives us some nice settings like

MEDIA

_URL

and

MEDIA

_ROOT

to make serving them a lot less painless. Lately, …

After reading the comments on

my last post on the subject

, I realized there was definitely some room for improvement in my strategy. This is take two of the original post.

Problems

My original strategy had a couple of …

Gondola is our content management system built on top of Django. I briefly showed it off during

my DjangoCon Lightning Talk

, but have been wanting to give it a proper screencast for a while. Here’s an introduction:

A few …

DjangoCon

was an amazing conference all around. I met some great people and learned a lot. I also had the opportunity to get up on stage and present some of the things I’ve been working on here. I was really …

This article is outdated, you’ll find an

updated article here

.

A friend is in the process of setting up a new slice at everbody’s favorite

VPS

provider

Slicehost

and asked for some advice. I use MySQL, Nginx & Apache/mod_wsgi …

All the recent

hub

bub

about 1 week and 1 day application development, motivated me to see how quickly I could launch a website for myself. I, like many developers, struggle with building and releasing personal sites. Ask a web …