Posted on 07 October 2009. Tags: deployment, django, flup, nginx, pinax, python
Tonight I spent sometime getting Pinax – Django swiss army knife – to work on nginx via fastcgi on my Ubuntu 9.10 box. Here is a step by step guide. First of course we need to install nginx, pretty easy with Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nginx Create a new file called <appname> in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ like [...]
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Posted on 02 July 2009. Tags: 960, blueprint, compass, css, dev, github, haml, pinax, programming, python, sass, web
Lately I’ve been really impressed and experimented joyfully with Compass and Sass. They make css/layout design fun again for me. Even if the whole tool chain is in Ruby you don’t have to touch any Ruby to use them – don’t misunderstand me: I like Ruby and I’ve been a Rails early adopter; my brain [...]
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Posted on 18 November 2008. Tags: data, freebase, semanticweb, webapp
In the first installment of this series I’ve spoken about a set of technologies that can speed up the time to market quite a bit. Read about it here if you missed it. This time I want to talk about where to get the content for your niche web app – if you need a [...]
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Posted on 09 November 2008. Tags: startup tuttivisti dev tools django pinax jquery bluetr
First things first. My new webapp tuttivisti is live! This post is about how it came to be. In just one week. One person team. Crazy working hours. So I was there immediately after receiving the news that YC did not select my team for this round. I thought I would feel depressed. I thought [...]
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Posted on 25 July 2008. Tags: dev, ecb, emacs, programming, python, rope, screenshot
Recently I tried to give some other Python editors/IDEs a chance. I tried pydev for a while and found it good enough, but not perfect. Truth is I have been using emacs for a long time for development. And I found myself quite comfortable to develop Python code with it. With a proper shell on the [...]
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