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Ever since the dot com boom I've wanted to create a website. I remember endless sheets of papers with "wonderful" ideas that would allow me to quit my job and enjoy my free time. My problem was that I was never able to take any of these ideas to completion. There was always a new idea in the horizon, or a distraction like work, family, school, etc.

I'm a mechanical engineer by training, so I knew enough programming to be dangerous. I first learned PHP, then with the web 2.0 craze I tried ROR and failed miserably. Finally last year, I thought I would give it another try. This time I did some research, and found Django and Python. I worked through the tutorial and I was sold. Slowly but surly, I started programming, and learning. I bought the "Practical Django Projects" book which was a great resource and just kept at it when I could. It was like building a very complicated lego set, where I would build a section, come back to it, and keep building. Fast forward to a year later, and I have finally launched my first website from scratch. It's just ...

There's nothing like this around.

MacPorts vs Homebrew vs Python.org install.

Single-file executable compilation? Nothing. Let's build a standard.