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Reusable Django Apps and Forking

By Peter Baumgartner on

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 …
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Serving Django via CherryPy

By Peter Baumgartner on

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 frontend was …
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Django FormMail Clone

By Peter Baumgartner on

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 to the …
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Better Use of Newforms

By Peter Baumgartner on

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, …
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Cash Offers Fast Site

By Peter Baumgartner on

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 the …
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Lincoln Loop Version 2

By Peter Baumgartner on

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. …
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Eating My Own Dog Food

By Peter Baumgartner on

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 eating my own dog food …
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Annoyed

By Peter Baumgartner on

Hey Adobe, 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 …