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22nd January 2008 - Link Blog

World's ugliest Django app. Brilliant hack from Paul Bissex: a self-contained Django application in 70 lines of code which shows off some internals trickery and makes use of a bunch of handy django.contrib packages.

Posted 22nd January 2008 at 1:34 am

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