All articles tagged Development
Django for Hire
Lincoln Loop has been in “head down” mode for the last couple months. In addition to being knee deep in client projects, we have grown from a one-man development studio to a full-fledged Django development shop/consultancy. We are proud to …
Getting RequestContext in Your Templates
Lately, we’ve been taking over projects from people who began building their first site in Django, but either got in over their head or just found they didn’t have the time to continue. As I review the existing code, the …
Google App Engine First Impressions
For those of you that have been hiding under a rock for the last 12 hours,
App Engine
is Google’s answer to
Amazon Web Services
. While it is less flexible in some senses (you don’t have a complete OS …
Reusable Django Apps and Forking
One of the things that drew me towards Django was the idea of being able to create reusable applications that would sit on my
PYTHONPATH
instead of copied across multiple sites. Coming from WordPress, the constant security updates that required …
Serving Django via CherryPy
Download
django-cpserver
Now at
GitHub
Background
A few months ago, I got sick of trying to deploy Django sites on my cPanel server and got a
VPS
at
Slicehost
. Thanks to
SuperJared
, setting up Apache/mod_python behind an Nginx …
Django FormMail Clone
Here’s a little nugget I just posted to
Django Snippets
. It emulates the behavior of an old Perl script I used way back when,
FormMail.pl
.
I often find myself needing to build a form whose contents get emailed …
Better Use of Newforms
The
newforms
library is a huge time-saver, but when I first started using it, I still found myself writing tedious repetitve code to get it to function how I wanted. While I could get away with it on smaller sites, …
Cash Offers Fast Site
We recently built and launched
CashOffersFast.com
. It gives people an easy, no-risk way to put their home up for sale. Pre-qualified investors can then make anonymous bids on any home listed with the site.
We worked very closely with …
Lincoln Loop Version 2
I’ve been wanting to update my website for quite a while. It got to the point that I wasn’t referring people to my old site because it had become such a poor representation of what Lincoln Loop has evolved into. …