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Five Days to a Django Web App: Day Three, Coding

Thanks for coming back for Day Three!
[Note: Sorry this post is a day late. It was all ready to go late yesterday, but some of the code included below triggered a bug either in WordPress or ScribeFire and the whole post got mangled. I managed to resurrect it today from drafts, and I think it's [...]

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Five Days to a Django Web App: Day Two, Mockups

Welcome back.
Ready for Day Two? Did you get your “hello world” app running on your host?
Where We Stand
Yesterday we nailed down our concept, bought a domain name and hosting, set up our toolkit, and deployed a practice app on the host.
Here’s what I’m going to build: a web app to keep track of job applications, [...]

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Five Days to a Django Web App: Day One, Get Ready

This is the first in a series of posts that will walk through the steps of designing, building, and deploying a complete web app using Django. I’m going to assume you know the basics when it comes to Python, Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript and some basic tools. This will be a part time effort, so [...]

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Simpler C Development Environment

If you’re on Windows and you had problems installing Cygwin, there is another package that includes GCC called “MinGW” (minimalist GNU for Windows).

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Getting Started in C

Some may argue that C is an outdated language to learn in 2009. I disagree. Learning C requires some degree of understanding how computers really work. And if you can understand pointers, you’re ten steps ahead of the game.
This is the first in a series of articles designed to help the reader learn the C [...]

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