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@onyxfish
onyxfish / fabfile.py
Created March 12, 2010 15:27
Fabric script to deploy staticly built tables from ProPublica's table-setter application to S3.
from fabric.api import *
"""
Base configuration
"""
env.project_name = 'tables'
"""
Environments
"""
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Aside from removing Ruby on Rails specific code this is taken verbatim from
# mislav's git-deploy (http://github.com/mislav/git-deploy) and it's awesome
# - Ryan Florence (http://ryanflorence.com)
#
# Install this hook to a remote repository with a working tree, when you push
# to it, this hook will reset the head so the files are updated
if ENV['GIT_DIR'] == '.'
@tomcritchlow
tomcritchlow / 7books.py
Created November 9, 2010 23:23
The main code for 7books (www.7bks.com)
import cgi
import os
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from google.appengine.api import users
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app
from google.appengine.ext import db
from google.appengine.api import memcache
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
@rcrowley
rcrowley / deps.pp
Created November 16, 2010 00:14
Deploying Django with Puppet
stage { "pre": before => Stage["main"] }
class python {
package {
"build-essential": ensure => latest;
"python": ensure => "2.6.6-2ubuntu1";
"python-dev": ensure => "2.6.6-2ubuntu1";
"python-setuptools": ensure => "latest";
}
exec { "easy_install pip":
path => "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin",
@evansd
evansd / postinstall.sh
Created June 28, 2011 21:30
postinstall sript from vagrant example box (having it somewhere web-accessible is easiest way to get it on to newly created VMs)
# Apt-install various things necessary for Ruby, guest additions,
# etc., and remove optional things to trim down the machine.
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y remove apparmor
apt-get -y install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
apt-get -y install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libssl-dev openssl libreadline5-dev
apt-get clean
# Remove this file to avoid dhclient issues with networking
rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
@stefanv
stefanv / sparks.py
Created November 17, 2011 00:25
Command line sparks in Python
#!/usr/bin/python
# coding=utf-8
# Python version of Zach Holman's "spark"
# https://github.com/holman/spark
# by Stefan van der Walt <[email protected]>
"""
USAGE:
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 19, 2025 17:31 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@thomaspark
thomaspark / subnav.css
Last active June 6, 2023 10:19
Subnav for Bootstrap 2
section {
padding-top: 60px;
}
.subnav {
margin-bottom: 60px;
width: 100%;
height: 36px;
background-color: #eeeeee; /* Old browsers */
background-repeat: repeat-x; /* Repeat the gradient */

Where people struggle learning Django

Over the last 3 years or so I've helped a bunch of companies, small and large, switch to Django. As part of that, I've done a lot of teaching Django (and Python) to people new to the platform (and language). I'd estimate I've trained something around 200-250 people so far. These aren't people new to programming — indeed, almost all of them are were currently employed as software developers — but they were new to Python, or to Django, or to web development, or all three.

In doing so, I've observed some patterns about what works and what doesn't. Many (most) of the failings have been my own pedagogical failings, but as I've honed my coursework and my skill I'm seeing, time and again, certain ways that Django makes itself difficult to certain groups of users.

This document is my attempt at organizing some notes around what ways different groups struggle. It's not particularly actionable — I'm not making any arguments about what Django should or shouldn't do (at least

@kroger
kroger / mobi.py
Created June 26, 2013 11:37
Mobi builder based on Sphinx's epub builder.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
sphinx.builders.mobi
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Build mobi files.
Originally derived from epub.py.
:copyright: Copyright 2007-2011 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
:license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.