Archive for April, 2008

On why having your own hedge fund is a good career choice

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

"If you take big, even reckless, bets and win, you have a great year and you get a great bonus—or in the case of hedge funds, 20% of the profits. If you lose money the following year, you lose your investors' money rather than your own—and you don't have to ...

Django on Google App Engine: Templates and static files

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

In a previous tutorial we learned how to set up a simple Django project on the Google App Engine. We also saw how to use the App Engine datastore in place of the Django model API. Now, let's have a look at how to integrate Django templates. I will also show ...

On the value of ignorance

Monday, April 14th, 2008

"It is best for the author to be born away from literary centres, or to be excluded from their ruling set if he be born in them. It is best that he starts out with his thinking, not knowing how much has been thought and said about everything. A certain amount ...

Django on Google App Engine in 13 simple steps

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

In this tutorial I will show you how to get a simple datastore-backed Django application up and running on the Google App Engine. I will assume that you are somewhat familiar with Django. Update 1: You can download the full set of files from here. Make sure to fix the sys.path ...