What “The Python Community” Really Means
Vince Salvino July 30, 2019
Ask any Python developer what the best part of Python is, and they’ll tell you: “the community”. However I was recently reminded that to most folks, the concept of a tech “community” is completely meaningless. I mean c’mon... how can a programming language have a community?! Honestly, it makes mor…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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Becoming an Open Source Developer
Cory Sutyak Jan. 22, 2019
2018 was a big year for us at CodeRed. We solved interesting problems, expanded our team, and we announced that we were open-sourcing our in-development Content Mangement System, CodeRed CMS. Open sourcing our work was something we had yet to do as a company. To call it a learnin…
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CodeRed CMS v0.10 released
Vince Salvino Dec. 20, 2018
Keeping up with our trend of pretty much one new beta release per month, CodeRed CMS version 0.10 was released earlier this week. Highlights include: New calendar and event page types! Create events, display them in calendar mode, agenda mode, or a simple listing, and visitors can download .ic…
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Announcing CodeRed CMS
The professional WordPress alternative for modern marketing websites
Vince Salvino Nov. 21, 2018
I am beyond excited to introduce CodeRed CMS, a content management system for building modern marketing websites. CodeRed CMS is our free open-source CMS for businesses, nonprofits, and marketing agencies seeking a more professional solution than WordPress. It was designed from the ground up to b…
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Customizable Navbars in Wagtail
How to use Snippets and StreamFields to create a navigation bar builder.
Cory Sutyak Nov. 14, 2016
Wagtail, the excellent CMS Framework developed by Torchbox, gives developers a large amount of freedom in how their projects are built. One of our projects required us to have a navigation bar creator. We decided to implement this using Wagtail's StreamFields and Snippets. Here's what our na…
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