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Building Amazing Webapps
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TL;DR version: Here is an app to allow logging in via twitter, facebook, openid, yahoo, google, which should work transparently with Django authentication system. (@login_required, User and other infrastructure work as expected.) Demo and Code.Longer version follow:
We are releasing our new app. Django-Socialauth. This app makes it awfully easy, to allow users to login your site [...]
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The newly launched search engine Bing has a simple restful API. We have created a thin Python wrapper over this API, which allows to query the Bing servers in a very pythonic way.
Installing this is as easy as easy_install bingapi.
[Or get it here or here ]
Using
from bingapi import bingapi bing = bingapi.Bing(<appid>) bing.do_web_search(‘Usware Technologies’)
The README from the [...]
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This is a parable in two parts. Story and the Moral. If you are in a hurry you might want to skip ahead to the moral (But you miss the beautiful story).
The Story
Long ago was the kingdom of Foobr, a kingdom mostly of shepherds, who grazed their sheep under the benevolent but watchful eyes [...]
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Part 1: Webpage and the Umans
In a time not so long ago, and not so far off existed a country called Theweb. It was a well populated place, popluated with upstanding citizens who called themselves Webpage, and lived together in harmony.
Each Webpage knew some other web pages in Theweb, and though well of them. You [...]
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Widely respected for their engineering talent, and amazing hacker culture, Google is never credited for the amazing marketing they do. When we look for the companies which have done a great job at marketing/branding, we think of Guiness, Apple, or Ikea. Today I want to talk about the marketing lessons we can learn from Google.
It [...]
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