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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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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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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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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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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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