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Mapping words to colors. How to turn tags colorful by automatically converting words into RGB colors.

Of course, once you add pagination to form results, it’s a whole new mess. But that’s for a followup post. :)

A simple way to parallelize a blocking IO task such as a http requests in Python 3.5

For a recent project, we had to build a service that would synchronize about 15,000 data items with associated photos from a 3rd party API to a database periodically. Each data item had…

Does your hosting company matter? Speed comparsion at GoDaddy versus Nexcess. Speed up your Web site dramatically by moving hosts!

One of our clients at Apollo Data Solutions was recently complaining about their Web site load speed as…

Django: initial values for a bound form

I ran into a small issue with Django today: what do you do when you need initial values in a bound form (such as a search form that is both initialized and then processed via GET action (so that searches can be bookmarked)?