James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem covers an Alan Vega (of Suicide) track

James Murphy, front man of LCD Soundsystem, has released a cover of one of his favorite bands: Suicide. Well, really the cover is just of an Alan Vega release from 1980/1981 — which by the way, is one of my favorite movies.

Tunes are after the jump

How to serve media with Django’s static serve only when using runserver

This is something that’s bugged me for a while. I like to develop my Django code locally, and to serve the media, I have to add a static serve line to my urls.py file. This can cause a few problems. The first is obvious, when you pull from your repository your server is also going to follow this directive slowing down your site to the speed of a ruby website (sorry, it was too easy). The second problem is: maybe your server doesn’t serve media from the same directory as you do locally!

Tags: Django, Python, static serve, urls

The Perfect Django Settings File

I’ve been developing Django applications for quite some time now, and I’ve amassed a few tricks. Here’s an example of a settings file I’ve created for a recent project. I’ll explain all of the bells and whistles below.

Here’s the whole file: http://gist.github.com/214361

The rest is after da jump!

Tags: Django, Programming, Python

First!!!

Here’s the sad lonely first post. I’m hoping to update this blog fairly frequently with music, things I find amusing, and possibly some things I find bemusing.

@damonjablons