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Bulk upload data when using app-engine-patch

I’ve been interested in learning more about both Django and Google’s App Engine, so I’ve been playing with app-engine-patch, a project that simplifies using Django on App Engine. I like it so far; it seems pretty simply, and it’s really easy to just extract the sample project and start modifying it.

Many of the personal projects I’ve been working on have needed some kind of ‘preset’ data. E.g. makes of cars, categories of food, etc. Data that won’t change frequently, but should most likely live in a database. It probably *could* just permantly live in a database, but since I’d rather not do that since I haven’t yet committed to a schema (or really even framework!). I’d prefer to keep the data in a simple external file like a spreadsheet if possible.

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Building Windows Mobile 6 apps using QT

Note: This article is a bit old, and applies to Windows Mobile 6, *not* Windows Phone 7

Because I use multiple platforms on a daily basis, I’m a big fan of cross-platform software. I’d been previous considering writing my personal apps in python/wxPython for this purpose, but with the recent announcement of QT going LGPL, I thought I’d try out QT and see if I could compile a program to use on my Fuze running WM 6.1 Professional.

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