Lincoln Loop Blog

Django for Hire

Lincoln Loop’s evolution from a one-man development studio to a full-fledged Django development shop/consultancy. We’re open and ready for business.

Getting RequestContext in Your Templates

Lately, we’ve been taking over projects from people who began building their first site in Django, but either got in over their head or just found they didn’t have the…

Google App Engine First Impressions

First impressions of setting up a Django project in App Engine. Includes some screenshots of the admin interface.

Reusable Django Apps and Forking

Why PYTHONPATH is not always the best place for your reusable Django apps. Sometimes forking apps into your local project is a better approach.

Serving Django via CherryPy

Django management command to serve projects via CherryPy’s built-in WSGI web server. Simplifies deployment and saves resources versus deploying via Apache.

Django FormMail Clone

Here’s a little nugget I just posted to Django Snippets. I often need to build a simple contact form whose contents get emailed to site staff members. This class let’s…

Better Use of Newforms

The newforms library is a huge time-saver, but when I first started using it, I still found myself doing tedious repetitve code to get it to function how I wanted. ...

Cash Offers Fast Site

We recently built and launched CashOffersFast.com. It gives people an easy, no-risk way to put their home up for sale. Pre-qualified investors can then make anonymous bids on any home…

Lincoln Loop Version 2

I’ve been wanting to update my website for quite a while. It got to the point that I wasn’t referring people to my old site because it had become such…

Eating My Own Dog Food

I’ve been kicking around the idea of switching hosting providers for a while. I finally took the plunge and if you’re reading this, it is being served off the new…