Now developing on Ubuntu 12.04 with Python 2.7. Use symbolic links for media, so add media/banners to .hgignore. I had a syntax error in banner_tags.py that only Python 2.7 caught. For local development, read database name from SECRETS.

<div class="side-block">
<div class="side-block-title">
{% block block_title %}{% endblock %}
</div>
<div class="side-block-content">
{% block block_content %}{% endblock %}
</div>
</div>