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There are technology conferences, and then there are gatherings of passionate technology enthusiasts. You will most likely not know what I am talking about, unless you saw that someone wrote a software for controlling a toy-car, using it’s blue tooth module, from an Nokia phone, at the event. You will most likely not know what [...]

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Django quiz

by shabda on December 3, 2009

A quick django quiz. Answers available tomorrow. Get it as a text file (django-quiz) or on google docs or read below.

### Easy

1. You have a class defined as

class Post(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)

You create multiple [...]

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What is Usware Technologies?

by shabda on August 27, 2008

From the sales pitch,

Usware Technologies is a Web Application Development Studio specialising in Django and Jquery. We build “Amazing Web Apps”.

But why Usware?

A lot of software is built as Themware. They give you specifications, you take the specification, you never talk to them till the software is built. Waterfall Model of software development [...]

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Hello world!

by admin on August 17, 2008

In [1]: print ‘Hello World’ Hello World

In [2]: from __future__ import braces ———————————————————— SyntaxError: not a chance (<ipython console>, line 1)

In [3]: import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special [...]

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