The day I got Django running on windows, I started hacking around setting Django up on CentOS. Little did I know upgrading Python and getting Django wouldn’t be that easy. CentOS 5.4 uses python 2.4, and replacing it is not really an option since yum and other core packages depend on it. The solution was to install 2.6.4 from source and use /opt for the prefix  so that 2.6.4 becomes the default python. Then move on to install mod_wsgi, setup Apache to use mod_wsgi and Install Django on CentOS 5.4
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FusionPBX is customizable and flexible web interface to the very powerful and highly scalable multi-platform voice switch called FreeSWITCH. Yes of course its open source.It can be setup and run on any operating system you are comfortable with, bringing in the same flexibility as freeSWITCH. The thing I like about fusion is that its done in PHP without any MVC framework dependencies. However that said, it is very powerful and a neat tool to mange your FreeSWITCH box. I was able to set it up and get running in under 10 mins.
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Django is an open source web application development framework, for python. I am totally impressed with it as it allows rapid application development and provides a brilliant auto generated administrative interface for the web app. Setting up Django on Windows without Apache & Mysql is fairly out of the box, but doing that in production is not recommended. Hence I tried to use existing portable and ready made stacks for Django on windows. Having tried them I would say, I wasted around 6 hours trying to get everything working. Bottom line: I decided to install Django on windows on my own using WAMP + mod_wsgi + mysql_python to run Django on windows.
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Love the Indian Bread – Roti, but fed up with the hassles of making it. 800 million people in India eat over 2.3 billion rotis a day. Chapati or roti is a staple in Indian diet. Yet it can take over 30 minutes to prepare a simple meal of roti. Repeating this at least three times every day is a cumbersome process. What if you could, make rotis, with a push of a button. Yes, Now you have help at hand – Rotimatic
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It seems that the trend right now within image hosting sites (be it social networks like facebook & orkut or specialized sites like picporta), is the ability to detect faces within user uploaded images.   While it once may have required a great deal of skill and understanding of image processing techniques, that is no longer the case.  In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to easily detect faces  within your PHP apps in just 5 steps.
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