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PayPal IPN Python Code

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

PayPal has Instant Payment Notification (IPN) libraries with examples for Perl, Java, and even Ruby, but look as hard as I may none for Python. Then again I spent 2 years at PayPal as a senior developer, C++ and Java are the dominant languages. Django and Rails are not even on the radar [...]

Porting Aware To Django

Monday, August 25th, 2008

A few years back I started a PC profiling service known as Aware Labs. It was originally written in C++ with a Windows MFC downloadable client. Six months ago I re-wrote the static website front end in Django so I could get a better handle on news and static updates. Today I’m [...]

Add P2P Social Bookmarking To Your Pages

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

I got tired of copying and pasting URLs and bookmarking pages on various browsers. So I spent roughly 7 hours last night composing Grab Labs. Its a widget that lets any user on any website copy and paste links directly into my blogs. Catch is both sites have to have the widget. [...]

Scraping Amazon Items Using Django Mash-Up

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

In this article learn how to mash up your Django powered site with Amazon affiliate items in one simple form. See it in action at: AwareLabs. Then skip to the code section and integrate it into your site.
Background
You want to list links to Amazon items on your Django powered website. However, you find [...]