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Reusable Django Apps and Forking

<p>One of the things that drew me towards Django was the idea of being able to create reusable applications that would sit on my</p><p>PYTHONPATH</p><p>instead of copied across multiple sites. Coming from WordPress, the constant security updates that required …</p>
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Serving Django via CherryPy

<p>Download</p><p>django-cpserver</p><p>Now at</p><p>GitHub</p><p>Background</p><p>A few months ago, I got sick of trying to deploy Django sites on my cPanel server and got a</p><p>VPS</p><p>at</p><p>Slicehost</p><p>. Thanks to</p><p>SuperJared</p><p>, setting up Apache/mod_python behind an Nginx …</p>
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Django FormMail Clone

<p>Here’s a little nugget I just posted to</p><p>Django Snippets</p><p>. It emulates the behavior of an old Perl script I used way back when,</p><p>FormMail.pl</p><p>.</p><p>I often find myself needing to build a form whose contents get emailed …</p>
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Better Use of Newforms

<p>The</p><p>newforms</p><p>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, …</p>
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Cash Offers Fast Site

<p>We recently built and launched</p><p>CashOffersFast.com</p><p>. 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.</p><p>We worked very closely with …</p>
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Eating My Own Dog Food

<p>I’ve been kicking around the idea of switching hosting providers for a while. I finally took the plunge and if you’re reading this, it is being served off the new platform. I’m going to be</p><p>eating my own dog food …</p>
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Annoyed

<p>Hey Adobe,</p><p>Progress bars are meant to indicate progress. When they sit in one place for 20+ minutes, it makes people think progress has stopped and something is broken. I shouldn’t have to check my running processes to see if …</p>
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Prudential Steamboat Realty

<p>A few weeks ago, I released</p><p>Prudential Steamboat Realty’s new site</p><p>into the wild. It is my first (but not last) large site built in</p><p>Django</p><p>to go live. As usual,</p><p>ashwebmedia</p><p>did a great job on redesigning the site …</p>