First off, out of the box, Django lets you construct API responses with a little work. All you need to do is something like this:
# Copied from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/class-based-views/#more-than-just-html
from django import http
from django.utils import simplejson as json
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Today I'm starting a new project. I'm working as fast as I can and hope to launch on Friday. What are my package dependencies?
Unlike my last quick project which was Flask, this effort really falls into Django's sweet spot. I need sessions, forms ...
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This is a day long coding event in Los Angeles for Open Source developers of all languages and skill levels to come and code like fiends. They'll be joined by dozens of either really smart coders or nice people like me. Sponsors are providing food, drinks, venue, and more ...
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This year in June, the European edition of DjangoCon is going to be held in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. It is my great fortune and delight to announce that Audrey and I will be attending. Hooray!
Needless to say, we're extremely excited. My trip to Europe in 2007 was an ...
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On October 16th, 2011, which was one hundred and sixty-four days before I published this post, I resolved to get myself onto the Longest Streak list of Calendar About Nothing. Today, with this blog post, I've managed to do just that - get on the Longest Streaks.
Calendar About Nothing ...
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A few months ago me and my fiancee, Audrey Roy, launched our start up, Consumer Notebook. It's a Python powered product comparison site that combines the best features of Open Comparison, Yelp, Consumer Reports, and Pinterest. We've worked day and night to make it better, with countless members ...
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This is one of those challenging posts to write. The people whose projects I'm going to describe have put in a lot of dedicated, hard work to overcome a challenging subject. Writing an OAuth consumer is a hard problem and writing an OAuth provider is an even harder problem ...
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In mid-November me and my fiancee, Audrey Roy began our startup. We had been frustrated with trying to do on-line product research and came up with an idea to take the lessons learned from Django Packages / Open Comparison and apply them to a commercial effort. The result has been Consumer ...
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Me and Audrey have been working hard on Consumer Notebook, a Python/Django based project. We submitted it to PyCon StartUp row and found out this morning we've been accepted. Hooray!
From the PyCon StartUp Row winner's post, here is a little bit of what we're about ...
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I started on django-uni-form in January 2009. In order to use Pinax on an internal social network for NASA HQ, we had to render all content, including forms, Section 508 compliant. Rather than rewrite the html for all 50+ forms that existed in the Pinax 0.5.x framework at ...
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