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Simple Processes: Bash vs. Python – “A No-Brainer”

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I haven’t posted in about 5 billion years. Well, it seems like that anyway. As I sit here partying with my laptop on a Friday night, I’ve been wondering how to display the track length of the current track that xmms2 is playing, without having to use the “xmms2 status” command. Yes, I listen to [...]

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Dreamhost Django Install, Revised Edition

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I recently went back to doing some Django development after a long lapse, and decided to start by eating my own dogfood… I started by upgrading Python for my Dreamhost user. I followed my own post, except that I used Python 2.6 instead of 2.5. I missed one step that was caught by a pingback [...]

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Django on Dreamhost

Sunday, September 28, 2008

It doesn’t take much searching to suspect that Django on Dreamhost maby not be an ideal environment, but it does work. Running Django on Dreamhost involves using Fastcgi, which is officially supported by Django, but not a recommended configuration. I found following the official tutorial sufficient in setting up Django on Dreamhost. A couple of [...]

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Upgrading Python on a Dreamhost Account

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Java is just my day job. In fact, it’s pretty dull too sometimes. I like to venture out when I can and work with other technologies. In this case, I’ve been messing around with Django on my Dreamhost account. This short tutorial is intended to be the first of several related to Python and Django. [...]

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