Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Developed and used over two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.
The Django framework
Object-relational mapper
Define your data models entirely in Python. You get a rich, dynamic database-access API for free — but you can still write SQL if needed.
Automatic admin interface
Save yourself the tedious work of creating interfaces for people to add and update content. Django does that automatically, and it's production-ready.
Elegant URL design
Design pretty, cruft-free URLs with no framework-specific limitations. Be as flexible as you like.
Template system
Use Django's powerful, extensible and designer-friendly template language to separate design, content and Python code.
Cache system
Hook into memcached or other cache frameworks for super performance — caching is as granular as you need.
Internationalization
Django has full support for multi-language applications, letting you specify translation strings and providing hooks for language-specific functionality.
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29 October 2008
Learning Website Development with Django
28 October 2008
iPods 101: How To Get The Most From Your Ipod
Since the iPod was first introduce over fours ago is has proven to be a versatile little tool. Even though the architecture is tightly closed, hackers have managed to find their way in so that they can make modifications. Software developers and creators of content have made it possible for you to use the iPod to keep all kinds of information at your finger tips. Besides being a unique way to carry around your music wherever you go, the iPod can be used for many other purposes.
Most people buy an iPod for the obvious reasons. The iPod works with your computer so that you can import music and organize your songs and photos. These files are then transferred to your iPod so that you can listen to them and view them wherever you go.
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Eugene: Taking the World by Storm
by Lynsey Swan Taylor & Matthew Harley
He’s a doodle let loose upon the world with dreams of freedom and a longing to belong. Follow his adventures with a free downloadable copy of the very first issue! Want a FREE 300 DPI printable version of this issue? Visit www.mattharley.com/eugene and request a printable edition.
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How to Draw a Person’s Face
This ebook contains directions on how to draw a man’s face, a woman’s face, a woman’s lips, eyes, a woman’s face from the side and anime.
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MetaCreative Magazine
MetaCreative Magazine is a free, full color PDF featuring ‘metaphysically infused art and culture.’ Traditional, digital and mixed media art of surreal, abstract and psychedelic styles are showcased with metaphysical articles, interviews, healthy recipes, indie music reviews and more.
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Mexican Secrets - e-Artbook
Mexican Secrets - e-Artbook
by Roland Salazar Rose
Mexican Secrets—is that it? Simply divulge what you are about in words and images sir, walk away from the pit you have dug for your self in life? No, I think, not!
For if you must carry secrets as baggage in your journey down life’s pathway you must recognize as well that it isn’t easy to toss the secrets aside, walk away, just as it is equally difficult to schlep them forward. It appears impossible to rid yourself of the meaning you have placed on them—indeed, stamped on them—they continue to ensnare you: another burdensome self-inflicted piece of baggage.
No matter what means of action you take you live with the past secrets in the here and now. You must shoulder them and bear on. As ‘life is for living’ you may in fact encumber your thirst for it by tasting the bitter pill it possesses.
—Roland Salazar Rose
Collaboration can become a kind of investigation of the emotional possibilities between the two forms. The brevity of the quatrains and the electricity of the small but potent images make up a sort of force field where the two forms are replenishing each other, as in good conversation, or between bass and piano in a jazz duet.
As Robert Creeley says regarding his own collaborations with painters, the response to image is not necessarily about conscious understanding, but of ‘picking up the vibes’ that the image generates. As in all potent art, the unconscious enters in, and we get an intuitive play that perhaps startles or gathers responsive momentum or a dance between the two forms. There is a mystery involved that partakes of light and sound, image and response, rhythm and joy, word and visual idea.
—Bill Pearlman
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25 October 2008
Dark, Mysterious and Irreverent
Dark, Mysterious and Irreverent
by Jeanne Treat
This eBook is a collection of short stories from the mind of Jeanne Treat, author of the Dark Birthright trilogy. Just in time for Halloween and Samhain, the collection features mystery, intrigue, and plenty of supernatural happenings. Three stories take place in old Scotland, while one takes place in a modern day Spiritualist community. Experience a witch hanging, a haunting, an execution, and an unusual birth.
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Sweet Ginger Poison
Sweet Ginger Poison
A mystery novella by Robert Burton Robinson
Length: 38,800 words
Synopsis: Virginia “Ginger” Lightley is the owner of Coreyville Coffee Cakes, a popular bakery in East Texas. Customers drive from miles away to visit the little shop for a taste of her original creations. It’s a shock to the whole community when a young man drops dead across town after eating one of her famous cakes. The newly appointed police chief promises to solve the case quickly. And Ginger wants to help him—until he accuses one of her employees of murder. She rejects the crime scenario laid out by the young police chief and secretly determines to solve the crime herself.
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24 October 2008
Free Ebooks on Holistic Remedies for People and Pets
Karmasherbs.com has a long list of free downloadable ebooks touching on holistic remedies for people and pets, targeted for a healthier living. To be honest, I have no idea what that means, but judging from the collection of ebooks presented in that site, I’d say that it’s something definitely worth checking out. The site claims that new ebooks are being added on a weekly basis, so make sure you check it out often. Once you click on the link below to get your reading started, do remember that the ebooks are categorized in such a manner that people related remedies are on the left and pet related remedies on the right, as obviously stated on the page itself. Well, there’s no harm repeating what it says I guess :)
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Best Abdominal Exercises
There are too many Ab Exercises out there. Many are not effective. So I have taken the time to narrow these down to the 12 most effective ab exercises.
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Make My Own House
by Larry Angell
This is a 48-page e-book that explains the benefits of building your own home instead of hiring contractors to do it for you. It also talks about planning, building, and financing your home. It’s a fun to read house building e-book that explains why modern homes are so overpriced and why so many people are having difficulty making their mortgage payments. It offers alternative methods for building a home.
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Publishing Tips: Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer
by Linda Lavid
Publishing Tips: Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer (also available in paperback) specifies the finer points of publishing as they relate to writing, editing, publishing, having a website and marketing. Clear, concise and helpful, Publishing Tips mirrors the dilettante role of every independent writer, that CEO of one who dreams, creates, and releases his or her work into the world.
From Preface…
Not so long ago, publishing your manuscript was restricted to finding a publisher or spending thousands of dollars to publish yourself. Thanks to technology, this is no longer the case. Three technological advances have converged allowing many voices of many places the option to write, publish and market their work easily and inexpensively. Specifically, after the original breakthrough of the personal computer, there came the word processing program, the Internet, and Print on Demand technology. Each innovation closed the gap between author and reader by arming writers with tools to create, edit, print and market books. Suddenly, many writers like myself are “all in” seeing where this is headed.
Anyway, we each have reasons for publishing our work. They can be grand or parochial. Perhaps you want to test the waters or get your work reviewed or reel in a commercial publisher or make a gazillion dollars. Whatever the impetus, publishing your work is a choice filled with opportunity and surprise. To help, I’m passing along Publishing Tips: Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer.
Happy writing and publishing!
Linda
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20 October 2008
Practical Guide to Project Planning
Practical Guide to Project Planning is filled with project documents and templates ready to use for planning and managing project. It explains project analysis and modeling techniques so these documents and templates can be used for effective project management. In addition, the book is also a guide to best practices that comply with the PMIs PMBOK ® 3.0.
Throughout the book, a real-world, practical project plan is used to explain all management issues related to a project, including scope, time, costs, quality, human resources, communication, risks, procurement, and integration. This example also covers every stage of implementing a project management office (PMO), from initial analysis to post-deployment review.
The text is filled with insightful tips on using the most popular project management tools and software, including Mindmanager for initial planning sessions, Milestone Project Companion for report generation, and Microsoft Project, the most widely used tool for project planning. Project documents discussed in the book are on the accompanying CD ROM, so readers can use them to develop and track their own projects.
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Foundation Flex for Designers
All Flex applications look the same—a blue-gray background and silver-skinned components—right? That doesn't have to be the case, though. This book shows you how to ensure that your Flex 2 and 3 projects stand out from the crowd and provide your users with an application that is both visually stunning and beautifully functional.
Flex Builder coupled with the Adobe Creative Suite (CS3) is a powerful combination, providing all the tools you need to create compelling, vibrant interfaces. This book guides you through creating applications with Flex Builder, designing layouts in Fireworks, creating custom skins for your components in Photoshop and Illustrator, and using CSS to enhance the appearance of your rich Internet applications (RIAs).
You'll learn how to efficiently use and style states, enabling you to switch between "pages", thus adding real depth to your applications. Youll also learn how to build web forms that are intuitive to use, helping your users provide the information youre after.
Your Flex applications no longer have to be contained within a web browser window—Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) enables the creation of desktop applications. This book explores giving an AIR application a truly custom shape and style, leaving the rectangular form that defines most applications far, far behind.
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CISA Review Manual 2008 English Edition
The CISA Review Manual 2008 has been completely revised and updated with new content to reflect changing industry principles and practices, and is organized according to the current CISA job practice areas. The manual features detailed descriptions of the tasks performed by IS auditors and the knowledge required to plan, manage and perform IS audits. The new edition also features new case studies to assist a candidate’s understanding of current practices. Also included are definitions of terms most commonly found on the exam, practice questions similar in content to what has previously appeared on the exam and references to additional study materials on specific topics. This manual can be used as a stand-alone document for individual study or as a guide or reference for study groups and chapters conducting local review courses.
The 2008 edition has been developed and is organized to help prepare the CISA candidate in studying the following job practice areas:
• The IS audit process
• IT governance
• Systems and infrastructure life cycle management
• IT service delivery and support
• Protection of information assets
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
576 pages. 148 MB
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iPhone Open Application Development
Certain technologies bring out everyone’s hidden geek, and the iPhone did so instantly upon its release. Thousands of programmers want to provide applications on the iPhone, and this book shows you how to achieve the spectacular effects that made the device an immediate hit. You’ll learn how to use an open, community-developed toolkit that has been widely downloaded and used. Author Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the first fully functional application using the open iPhone toolkit, now explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API, which in some ways resembles Apple’s desktop API and in some ways strikes new ground.
iPhone Open Application Development covers:
* Installation of the toolkits
* Background on the operating system and Objective-C
* Detailed recipes and working examples for everyone’s favorite iPhone feature
* Graphics and audio programming
* The CoreImage and CoreSurfaces interfaces for games programming
* Interfacing with iTunes
* The use of sensors
Any programmer, using this book, can provide applications that impress users just as much as the official iPhone utilities.
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Development, Trade, and the WTO: A Handbook
International trade is a matter of vital importance for developing countries, since it can stimulate growth and contribute to poverty reduction. Trade is, however, an increasingly complex issue, and policymakers in developing countries will need to understand the many ramifications of multilateral trade agreements if their countries are to benefit from this engine of growth. Development, Trade, and the WTO summarizes the economics of sound trade policy, explains behind-the-border regulatory issues, and presents a range of perspectives on trade-related issues. It also contains relevant data and training material. Policymakers, trade negotiators, indeed any reader interested in international trade, will find this book invaluable.
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17 October 2008
600 Chili Recipes
Are you a chili lover? If you are, then you are going to love 600 Recipes For Chili Lovers! Inside you'll find every imaginable version of chili.
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12 Things Women Need To Know About Stretch Marks
I really don’t know any woman out there who doesn’t have stretch marks. That said, some women have stretch marks that are more prominent that others and for those women, stretch marks become a source of self-consciousness.
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Tips For Creating Celebrity Hair Styles
You can create these looks at home and one of the best tips is the less time you spend on it the better it will look.
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12 October 2008
99 Websites You Should Have Bookmarked...But Probably Don’t
These “99 Websites” appeared as SiteSightings in my “Webs Worth Watching”
Newsletter. In case you don’t know, a SiteSighting is any website that provides REAL
VALUE to online business owners. In short, it’s the kind of site that’s worthy of a
bookmark.
To get the full story on SiteSightings and the “Webs Worth Watching” Newsletter, be
sure to visit: ......
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08 October 2008
ARIS Design Platform: Advanced Process Modelling and Administration
Following on from Rob Davis’ successful introductory text, ARIS Design Platform: Getting Started with BPM, this new book covers in detail some of the more advanced concepts of using ARIS Business Architect in the new ARIS 7 Design Platform. Written in a reader-friendly style, it contains detailed explanations of key concepts combined with numerous examples, hints and tips gained from many years of practical experience of using ARIS. Topics covered include: • The Matrix Editor • Find and Query • Model Generation • Method Filters and Method Changes • Templates and Fonts • Reports, Semantic Checks and Macros • Database Administration • The Symbol Editor • User Management This easy-to-follow advanced text is a must-have guide and reference for all users who want to increase their ARIS skills, and for those who need to undertake advanced model and database management. More information can be found at www.rob-davis.co.uk. Rob Davis works for British Telecommunications Plc. He has practical knowledge of working with ARIS in industry for over ten years and has already authored two very successful texts on ARIS - Business Process Modelling with ARIS: A Practical Guide and ARIS Design Platform: Getting Started with BPM.
ARIS is ranked as the leading Business Process Modelling tool in the Gartner Quadrant for Business Process Analysis and Optimization. The ARIS Design Platform is being used as a business process management (BPM) tool for projects in BPM, quality management, business analysis and design, software development, implementation of service-oriented architectures and so forth.
Image Acquisition and Processing with LabVIEW (Image Processing Series)
Image Acquisition and Processing With LabVIEWä combines the general theory of image acquisition and processing, the underpinnings of LabVIEW and the NI Vision toolkit, examples of their applicationspresentationbookwhite papersOCR toolkit, and IMAQ 1394 drivers., a demonstration version of LabVIEW 6.0, and an NI IMAQ demonstration that guides you through its features. System Requirements: Using the code provided on the CD-ROM requires LabVIEW 6.1 or higher and LabVIEW Vision Toolkit 6.1 or higher. Some of the examples also require IMAQ Vision Builder 6.1 or higher, the IMAQ contains libraries of the example images and code referenced in the text, additional technical . Designed for LabVIEW programmers, it fills a significant gap in the technical literature by providing a general training manual for those new to National Instruments (NI) Vision application development and a reference for more experienced vision programmers. A CD-ROM packaged with the , and real-world case studies in a clear, systematic, and richly illustrated
The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook:: How to Survive Information Systems Audit and Assessments
* The ulitmate guide to making an effective security policy and controls that enable monitoring and testing
* The most comprehensive IT compliance template available, giving detailed information on testing all your IT security, policy and governance requirements
* A guide to meeting the minimum standard, whether you are planning to meet ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPPA, FISCAM, COBIT or any other IT compliance requirement
* Both technical staff responsible for securing and auditing information systems and auditors who desire to demonstrate their technical expertise will gain the knowledge, skills and abilities to apply basic risk analysis techniques and to conduct a technical audit of essential information systems from this book
* This technically based, practical guide to information systems audit and assessment will show how the process can be used to meet myriad compliance issues and technical needs. This “roadmap” provides a way of interpreting complex, often confusing, compliance requirements within the larger scope of an organization’s overall needs. provides comprehensive methodology, enabling the staff charged with an IT security audit to create a sound framework, allowing them to meet the challenges of compliance in a way that aligns with both against them
Help! I Don’t Understand Computers (Help! Guides)
Helen Gallagher, author Computer Ease. Written in 2000, it might have been out a little too early to help all the people who are overwhelmed by tech in every facet of life now in 2006. So many people need a little computer help now and then. As the author of “Computer Ease” I know there are many who need a little humor and hand-holding to get past all the tech jargon and really learn how to enjoy working with your computer.
