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Entries from October 2009

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem covers an Alan Vega (of Suicide) track

October 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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James Murphy, front man of LCD Soundsystem, has released a cover of one of his favorite bands: Suicide. Well, really the cover is just of an Alan Vega release from 1980/1981 — which by the way, is one of my favorite movies.

Tunes are after the jump (more…)

Categories: Music

How to serve media with Django’s static serve only when using runserver

October 16, 2009 · 1 Comment


This is something that’s bugged me for a while. I like to develop my Django code locally, and to serve the media, I have to add a static serve line to my urls.py file. This can cause a few problems. The first is obvious, when you pull from your repository your server is also going to follow this directive slowing down your site to the speed of a ruby website (sorry, it was too easy). The second problem is: maybe your server doesn’t serve media from the same directory as you do locally!
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Categories: Django · Programming · Python
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The Perfect Django Settings File

October 15, 2009 · 13 Comments

my-django-ponyI’ve been developing Django applications for quite some time now, and I’ve amassed a few tricks. Here’s an example of a settings file I’ve created for a recent project. I’ll explain all of the bells and whistles below.

Here’s the whole file: http://gist.github.com/214361

The rest is after da jump!

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First!!!

October 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Here’s the sad lonely first post. I’m hoping to update this blog fairly frequently with music, things I find amusing, and possibly some things I find bemusing.

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