Showing 55 to 60 of 81 blog posts tagged with "how-to".
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Using Django and Celery with Amazon SQS
Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a relatively new offering in the family of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's also an appealing one, because it proposes to quickly and easil... Read more
December 19, 2011 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 2: Text Parsing and Entity Extraction
This is the second post in our OpenRural series reviewing OpenBlock and it's geocoder. OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding covers the internals of the OpenBlock... Read more
December 16, 2011 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding
As Tobias mentioned in Scraping Data and Web Standards, Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on GitHub). Open Rural ... Read more
December 12, 2011 -
Django Without the Web
One of the things I like best about Django is how easy its ORM makes it to work with databases. Too bad Django is only for web applications. Sure, you could deploy a Django app ... Read more
October 24, 2011 -
Bulk inserts in Django
I recently found a way to speed up a large data import far more than I expected. The task was to read data from a text file and create data records in Django, and the naive impl... Read more
September 20, 2011 -
Testing Web Server Configurations with Fabric and ApacheBench
Load testing a site with ApacheBench is fairly straight forward. Typically you'd just SSH to a machine on the same network as the one you want to test, and run a command like th... Read more
September 13, 2011
