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Spell Check Django Templates, HTML, Markdown, and RST Files in VS Code

Vince Salvino June 2, 2020

Spelling is important, and something that most developers are less than perfect at (myself included). In the age of spellcheck and autocorrect, it's inexcusable to have spelling or typographical errors in Markdown, RST, or HTML - yet none of the popular editors can intelligently spell-checking tho…

Building a Python Agent with CLI and Web API

Vince Salvino Jan. 2, 2020

Did you ever wish to have a little python program running on your server to help automate tasks? While a lot can be done with cron jobs, bash scripts, and SSH-based tools such as ansible — sometimes having your own program waiting and ready to do your bidding is exactly what you need. In this ar…

Beta Testers Wanted!

Introducing our Django & Wagtail hosting platform: CodeRed.cloud

Vince Salvino Dec. 19, 2019

Go to any Django or Wagtail support forum and you’ll probably find one question coming up over and over again: “How the heck do I deploy this thing?” OR “Help! I deployed it and now have 100 yaks to shave!” Python is not exactly the easiest thing to deploy to a web server, compared to say PHP wh…

Using VS Code with a Legacy .NET Project

Use visual studio code with an older C# WebForms, ASP.NET, VB, or MVC solution

Vince Salvino July 2, 2019

Originally published: August 8, 2018. Updated for 2019: more modular install and no longer depends on full version Visual Studio! I think one of the worst parts about working with a “legacy” codebase is often times the tooling. For years any .NET project had a tight ball-and-chain relationship w…

Increasing Accessibility of CodeRed CMS Projects

Hayley Hartman June 17, 2019

One of the more exciting aspects of contributing to CodeRed CMS has been, for me, the new-ness of it. There’s plenty of work to do, and I feel like something about it gets shinier and better every single week. Our latest angle for improving the project is to bring CodeRed CMS up to minimum access…

PyCon Sprint Recap

We had a great time at the PyCon sprints. See what's coming soon in CodeRed CMS!

Vince Salvino May 10, 2019

Wow, what a week! As always, we are leaving PyCon 2019 both exhausted and incredibly re-invigorated. I'm very pleased at the progress made on CodeRed CMS during the PyCon sprints. Here's a preview of what we got done and what is coming soon in the next release or two. Stream Forms [ PR #171 ] B…

Join us at PyCon Sprints!

Vince Salvino May 5, 2019

Are you at PyCon US 2019? Have you always wanted to launch a personal blog or side-project website, but never got around to doing it? Then join us for CodeRed CMS sprints May 6 - 8. We need help making our "getting started guide" better! We invite you to stop by our table, install CodeRed CMS, an…

CodeRed CMS vs WordPress

A detailed comparison influenced by years of working with business websites.

Vince Salvino March 13, 2019

The number one question I get asked is: "Why choose CodeRed CMS over WordPress?". The short answer is: CodeRed CMS requires less developer effort and yields a more stable, manageable, and higher quality website. But any salesman would tell you something similar for any product. During my years of …

CodeRed CMS v0.11 released

Vince Salvino Jan. 26, 2019

Keeping up with our trend of pretty much one new beta release per month, CodeRed CMS version 0.11 was released earlier this week. Highlights include: New Mailchimp integration! Form submissions can now be connected to Mailchimp to automatically subscribe submitters to specific lists and in…

Save battery while developing Django

Vince Salvino Jan. 26, 2019

I frequently work on my laptop, and am always disappointed at how quickly the battery drains while running Django's python manage.py runserver command. Turns out that runserver is quite a resource hog as it constantly scans the files in your directory to check for changes and reload the server w…