Posts Filed in "Django"

The question came up today, if there was a database logging solution available for Django. It turned out (to my knowledge) there wasn’t. So I quickly came up with django-db-log. It’s a simply middleware which will catch exceptions in Django, and log them to the database, allowing you to easily view them via the admin […]

The guys over at Pocoo have been hard at work on Jinja 2 lately. So far it’s looking awesome. The benchmarks are outstanding (putting it even further ahead of Django, and faster than Mako even), and some of the additions, and changes, such as the awesome addition to for x in iterable [if expr] are […]

Constantly, and only in Python channels, I hear the argument brought up that “PHP is <insert random insult>” or “<N> is a PHP developer so he must suck”. One of the things I hate most, is stereotypes, based on false information. Stereotypes about people from Texas being rednecks are ok, because it’s true. Now, let’s […]

I had a need for a file storage system, which would keep the original file name in tact, no matter what. By default, Django’s FileField’s only allow you to base the directory name on the datetime. While this is good for the most part, you can still have duplicate file names if they are added […]

One of my tasks lately has been updating the django-sphinx library to work with Sphinx 0.98, as it includes GIS components which we have been wanting to possibly utilize on our new search engine. So today, the conclusion of.. very few hours of work, I’d like to announce 2.0.0 of the Django integration.
The SphinxSearch manager […]

Last week I made the decision to begin the conversion from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Well, more of a benchmark conversion, but none the less. So we begin the installation..
I installed PostgreSQL server, version 8.2, painlessly both locally and on our staging server. I then installed psycopg2 via Python setuptools. Nice, quick and easy, right? Segmentation […]

Every time I meet someone new who asks me about Django, I tell them exactly what I think. It’s a great product. It does exactly what it’s designed to do. Allows you to build decently structured applications rapidly, without much overhead in doing so. One of the other things I tell them, is that the […]

One of my goals, beyond the constant improvement of the ORM in Django, is to make django.newforms easier for all of the lazy people, like myself, which I know are plentiful. I personally hate the repetitive task of creating templates for your forms, and the as_X methods are extremely limited. So let’s get down to […]

Today I was creating the submission form for the new iBegin.com homepage. In this we use a lot of JavaScript to make the process more clean. One such use, was an autocomplete on Cities and Categories. To do this, and to keep validation, you need to use a ModelChoiceField, but using a ModelChoiceField with a […]

Recently I took the opportunity to configure my server for per-user hosting (to offer some free hosting to people who needed it). Doing this I had to configure mod_wsgi per-user as well. First, let me say that the documentation is excellent, but real world examples are always very helpful. Below is the output of a […]