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Create a Django development environment on 64-bit Windows for Heroku deployment

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Post published:24 February 2014
Post category:Cloud Django Heroku PaaS Python Web Development
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Getting Started with Django on Heroku

This weekend I tried to follow Heroku’s Getting Started with Django article. Unfortunately for me, this article is clearly aimed at developers working in a “unix-style environment”, and I develop with a 64-bit Windows machine both at work and at home. Given that we are working with a Python-based framework, I foolishly assumed that it would be trivial to translate these instructions to Windows. How wrong I was.

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How to embed third-party widgets such as Mixcloud into WordPress

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Post published:22 September 2013
Post category:Web Development WordPress
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There are now a huge number of third-party content providers that offer the ability to embed their content into your own website. YouTube is no longer the only media streaming service that you might want to include in one of your pages. Many other competing media streaming providers are now offering an API that should make it easy to embed their content. However, the question is what is the best way to include their content in one of your WordPress pages?

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How to Override Inline Styles from an External Stylesheet

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Post published:20 July 2012
Post category:CSS Web Development
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All web developers know that by default, inline styles take precedence over styles in external stylesheets. For example, the following inline style declaration:

<span style="color: red;">Red text</span>Code language: HTML, XML (xml)

will ensure the “Red text” is coloured red, even if the following is included in an external CSS file, or in the <head> styles:

span { color: blue; }Code language: CSS (css)

Now it is generally not a good idea to use inline styles, as one should avoid mixing markup (responsible for the content and structure) with styles (responsible for the presentation format). Sometimes this is out of our control, for example if you are using a CMS which generates HTML with inline styles. In this case, how do you override these inline styles to ensure the page looks right?

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