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Posted on Jun 2, 2011 - 6:07 PM Comments (0)

I created this video a few weeks ago but I've been so busy I forgot to write about it on my blog. However the people on my mailing list received it pretty much immediately.

So if you want to get an immediate heads up when I create new content like this then add your email address to the form in the top right and click the "Subscrube" button.

Here's the email I sent out a few weeks ago (yea, I know this is the lazy way out...)

=== Email Below ===

Earlier this week I told you I created a ...

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5 Ways To Do Business While Saving Money

Posted on Apr 11, 2011 - 10:44 PM Comments (0)

It's no secret that I'm a hustler. It's in my blood. For as long as I can remember I've had ideas to do this or that to make money. From stupid schemes as a kid, short term (read: half ass) ideas as a late teen and into my 20's, and into my later twenties when I finally started to learn that it takes time, a lot of hard work and dedication to make any money on your own in business.

I've failed mostly but still managed to squeeze out a good living. I've ...

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Quickly Impersonate Another User In Your Django Project

Posted on Feb 4, 2011 - 4:06 PM Comments (0)

I've created or worked on so many Django projects in the last 4 years that I find myself completely forgetting a project or client all together. It's sort of funny. Anyways...

Too many times I've run into a situation where I, as an admin, need to impersonate another user on the system so I can verify a bug or issue that the user is experiencing. Over the years I've thrown together some internal methods to easily accomplish this.

Well I finally got fed up with the process and decided to roll out a easily re-usable Django ...

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How To Use SuperFeedr In Your Django Project Using DjPubSubHubbub

Posted on Jan 24, 2011 - 6:42 PM Comments (0)

Last year I started using an awesome service called SuperFeedr in a few projects I'm working on. Basically it's a service that notifies me when new content is available. Saves me from having to build a constant polling service to check for new data. You can read all about it on their website as they'll sell it much better than I just did ;)

Since I pretty much write everything I do in Python / Django I went looking for a Django app that supported the PubSubHubbub protocol. After a lot of searching I found there was one app ...

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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas Everyone

Posted on Dec 24, 2010 - 5:17 PM Comments (0)

Even though I grew up Catholic, I'm not a very religious person. None the less, I still celebrate Christmas and look forward to it every year. Time with friends and family is always awesome but I'm glad it's kept to once or twice a year :p

So, whatever it is you're celebrating this time of year, have fun and be safe. I hope you have a great holiday season and spend it doing whatever makes you happy!

I'll be spending the next few days with some the people I love the most, though not all ...

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NorthWoods Inn - Hallows Eve 2010

Posted on Nov 8, 2010 - 11:45 PM Comments (0)

On Hallows Eve 2010 I went to dinner at the NorthWoods Inn restaurant. I had family in town and this is the place they picked. It was also a dinner to celebrate my brothers 18th birthday.

This place is known for it's great steaks and mouth watering (literally!) garlic cheese bread. Also, they serve you large bowls of peanuts and encourage you to throw the shells on the floor. It definitely adds to the woodsy lodge type atmosphere that this joint has. This will be a review of the foods I ate that night...

First off, the garlic cheese ...

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Lakers Opening Game - 10/26/2010

Posted on Nov 2, 2010 - 5 PM Comments (0)

When I was born, I was wearing a Dodgers hat and a Lakers jersey. Sounds odd I know, but that's just a result of being born and bred in Southern California.

It just so happened that the Lakers opening game for the 2010/2011 season fell on my brothers 18th birthday. We decided to celebrate by going to the game. They were playing the Houston Rockets which was cool because we had a grueling series with them in the playoff's the season before last. Still some bad blood there no doubt.

The game was completely sold out but ...

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Nearly 4 Years In and I Still Suck At Writing Blog Posts

Posted on Oct 9, 2010 - 12:22 AM Comments (0)

I first registered the domain name PeterSanchez.com back in 2005 and pretty much had a blog up ever since.

In 2007 I switched from WordPress to Serendipity because I wanted to use PostgreSQL as the database (holy war flame bait, but I f'n hate MySQL!) and WordPress didn't have the support for it.

A few months after that I started to learn a web development framework named Django. Well like any normal developer learning Django my first project was a blogging platform and so I soon switched the platform, yet again, from Serendipity to my personally developed ...

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You (Yes You!) DO Have Urgency Issues

Posted on Aug 12, 2010 - 10:17 AM Comments (0)

Ok, I admit it. I'm absolutely horrible at keeping my priorities in proper order. I'm willing to guess that you are too. Why? Because most humans are. It's sort of our nature.

You might not be as bad as I am or you might be much worse. Either way, we all have issues keeping our priorities in check in the face of a new "urgent" issue.

This morning my buddy Marcel Chastain pointed me to a blog that I've never read before. It's called Rock Your Day and it's written by a guy named ...

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Grab What's Between Your Legs!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 - 1:21 PM Comments (3)

Crude title for this post but I think it's necessary.

I subscribe to many different mailing lists because I like to see what people are writing, teaching, promoting, etc. More importantly, I like to see the style in which they do it.

It's a great way to learn about marketing, copywriting, and salesmanship. One of my favorites is Frank Kern, which isn't really a surprise because he's huge in the internet marketing world.

Today I was going through my many, many mailing list emails and ran across an email from Frank about a new blog post ...

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