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Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service may soon be getting support for 3D panoramas using Photosynth technology. Earlier in May, Microsoft updated SkyDrive with an emphasis on photos, creating a chronologically ordered "All Photos" view and accepting full-resolution uploads from Windows Phone 8. Now, the highly reliable LiveSide reports that SkyDrive will also allow users to upload and view 3D panoramas. The new feature will be based on Photosynth's toolset, supporting interactive panoramas stitched together from photos and videos. LiveSide notes that it's not clear whether SkyDrive will support synths, a kind of inverse panorama that captures multiple sides of a single building or other object. We also don't have any word on when... Continue reading…

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2013/05/25/152989.aspxPrairie Dev Con has been providing fantastic opportunities to learn, network, and have fun for software developers living in the Canadian prairies over the last four years. We're looking at running the next Prairie Dev Con in Saskatoon, but we need your help! What sessions would you like to see? What session styles do you like? What would make Prairie Dev Con Saskatoon a must-attend event? We have a short survey that I'd invite you to fill out. It doesn't take long and the information will go a long way to help in planning for a Saskatoon event! Also, if we do go ahead and run a Prairie Dev Con in Saskatoon, we'll draw a name from the survey submissions for a free pass to the conference! Click here to take the survey! Thanks, and hopefully we'll see you in Saskatoon later this year! D'Arcy Lussier Prairie Dev Con

Hello, I have a sharded replica set environment. (6 shards, 2 replicas in each shard + 1 replica as non-read backup). I use our own md5 hash key for equal distribution amongst nodes and force reads to the secondaries and all writes to the primaries. We previously were on 5 shards and just added the

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To check if the instance was saved one might do something like this: def is_instance_saved(instance): if instance.pk is None: return False # in case pk was set manually try: instance.__class__.objects.get (pk=instance.pk) except ObjectDoesNotExist: return False

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Hello When I run the initially created project using the command 'python manage.py runserver' gives me Error: [Errno 10013] When I run this command though 'python manage.py runserver 8001', then I can see the site on [link] Can you tell me why this happens and what are those 4 digit numbers after

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