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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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Django gotchas

by shabda on November 11, 2009

This is announcement about our new work, Django Gotchas, a teeny tiny ebook about commonly occurring gotchas with Django. Here is the readme copied from the project.

Django-gotchas is a collections of gotchas which happen commonly when you are working with Django. They are some errors which I have made commonly or seen others do, these [...]

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Beginning python

by shabda on September 18, 2009

Slides and code from my talk at twincling.

Beginning PythonView more documents from Usware Technologies.

Talk CodeView more documents from Usware Technologies.

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Better Python package management using source and version control systems

by lakshman on June 24, 2009

Thanks to awesome django community, there is plenty of open source django code around.

These packages get updated quite often and if you use it often like we do, you’d have possibly realized the need to manage these packages better.

Thankfully, all python ever needs is the source, and all you need to do is to place [...]

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Python Wrapper on Bing API

by lakshman on June 10, 2009

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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How to build a Facebook app in Django

by shabda on February 20, 2009

Facebook has a simple and robust API which allows users to build applications for the Facebook platform. We being the intelligent developers will use the superb Django framework to build our application.

The completed code for this is available at https://svn.uswaretech.com/favlang/. The completed application is deployed to facebook here.

How does a Facebook application work?

The users make a request [...]

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