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In Part 1 of this tutorial, I described how to prepare Nginx (along with Apache) to serve a production Pylons app. In this article, I walk you through packaging and installing your application.
Packaging Your Pylons App
The official Pylons book offers a lengthy section on how to package your application. However, I feel that [...]

Today I was the first time I’ve used my new found Python skills in a professional capacity. As part of a larger project, the client wanted me to check each HTML document for image tags missing their “alt” attributes. Knowing how tedious and impercise it would be to do this manually, writing a script was [...]

Dear PHP,

We’ve been together for about five years now. I’ve had a lot of good times and I’ve really enjoyed being with you. However, the more we work together, the more concerned I get about our future. I’m sorry, but you don’t have the elegance that inspires me to want marry you. I think it’s [...]

PHP is simultaneously the most infuriating and joyful languages I’ve ever worked with. I say “infuriating” primarily because the function names are so inconsistant. Despite the fact that I use it almost everyday, I still have to think to myself “Is it str_pos or strpos? str_split or strsplit?” On the other hand, occasionally I’ll stumble [...]