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Easy Fabric Deployment, Part 1: Git/Mercurial and SSH

<p>We’re firm believers in the practices described by the</p><p>Continuous Integration</p><p>method of software engineering. Among those are:</p><p>Maintain a code repository</p><p>Automate the build</p><p>Automate deployment</p><p>We use git for our code repositories and</p><p>Fabric</p><p>to automate our build/deployment …</p>
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Using Django Inside the Tornado Web Server

<p>Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk,</p><p>Using Django in Non-Standard Ways</p><p>(</p><p>slides in</p><p>PDF</p><p>) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (</p><p>tornadoweb.org</p><p>), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django …</p>
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Highlighting Named Anchors with jQuery

<p>I’ve always disliked the way named anchors (</p><p>&lt;a href="#name"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;</p><p>) behave in browsers. It jumps your viewport to a different part of the page, but it’s rarely obvious which section you have landed on. If the page is long …</p>
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Django Best Practices

<p>This post got a bit long-winded,</p><p>skip to the project announcment</p><p>if you prefer.</p><p>One of the things I love about Python and Django is the philosophy that</p><p>there is one obvious way to do things</p><p>. Standards make it …</p>
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Open Source Government

<p>While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative,</p><p>recovery.org</p><p>, I noticed something of interest.</p><p>&lt;</p><p>script</p><p>type</p><p>=</p><p>"text/javascript"</p><p>&gt;</p><p>&lt;!--</p><p>//--&gt;&lt;![CDATA[//&gt;&lt;!--</p><p>jQuery</p><p>.</p><p>extend</p><p>(</p><p>Drupal</p><p>.</p><p>settings</p><p>,</p><p>{</p><p>"basePath"</p><p>:</p><p>"/"</p><p>});</p><p>//--&gt;&lt;!]]&gt; …</p>
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Satchmo Screencast

<p>Satchmo</p><p>is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like ZenCart and</p><p>OSC</p><p>ommerce, Satchmo’s ease of customization make it a joy to work with.</p><p>Unfortunately, all the features can …</p>