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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 [...]
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Twitter’s robust REST API enables building of good applications that leverage its increasingly large and real-time data. Google’s cloud system App Engine not only provides a scalable platform for deploying applications, but also proves to be economically viable because of its pay per resource usage model and a large free quota. Little wonder then, there [...]
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A common goal in web application development is creating subscription based application, where users can use their domains. For example, 1. Basecamp allows you to manage your project, and gives users as subdomain like xyz.grouphub.com 2. Blogger goes a step further, and allows you to use arbitrary domains with your domain, using Cnames. django-subdomains is [...]
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What is EC2 Unless you have been living on Mars these last few years, you are sure to have heard of EC2. Amazon’s cloud offering, it offers infinite scalability. Using EC2, you can bring up any number of machines online at minutes notice, and after you are done with them, bring them down. How does [...]
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