Install OpinionTrends with nginx and memcached

OpinionTrends is build with Python and Flask. Therefore you can run it without any additional server right out of the box. Batteries included! However, it is much more common and much more efficient if you run it with a web server and an application server. A widely used combination for Python web applications is nginx together with uWSGI. In this tutorial I want to show how we set up this two tools to run TechTrends and OpinionTrends. The tutorial starts at the very beginning and the only thing I assume is that you run a Linux machine with Python and easy_install.

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Continuous Integration Development Workflow

This semester I attended an university course called System Engineering and Management taught by Prof. Walter Kriha. The course has a slightly different topic every year and is made up of presentations from students, research assistants and other lecturers. The topic in this year was continuous integration and software deployment. Together with Jan Müller, I set up a continuous integration environment to develop a Python web app.

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Trip to Croatia

My girlfriend and I used the last sunny days in this summer for a trip to Croatia. Being the fist time in Croatia, we were very impressed by its nature, its people and beautiful places. Here are some of our impressions, including Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

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