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securing django… at Sun 25 Apr 2010, 8:59 a.m.

A post by redrobotstudios describing how they use https selectively for admin and login only. The use of decorator to redirect traffic from http to https is pretty good.

Django Secret Question suggestion

A post sharing one of the approach I took to solve a password reset problem and asking the community for feedback if there is any much secure way to achieve the task.

Django image crop and upload to S…

A brief explanation on creating a profile Image from an Image upload. After the image is uploaded we crop the picture and resize it to appropriate sizes and then put into MEDIA or upload to S3.

add fulltext se… at Mon 03 Aug 2009, 1:04 p.m.

Whoosh is a pure text indexing & searching library. Post on how to use whoosh with django.

extend djangos … at Mon 27 Jul 2009, 11:02 a.m.

An intresting article on adding methods to classes in a framework. Monkey patching. Check out comments as well.

phpbb to accept… at Sun 19 Jul 2009, 3 a.m.

A blog post which describes how to use django sessions with other 3rd party CMS like phpBB. Intresting thought but yes it is very handy!!

python paste at Sat 20 Jun 2009, 8:15 p.m.

Yet another python web framework based on WSGI. A-Do-It-Yourself-Framework.

django tip cach… at Sun 07 Jun 2009, 5:28 p.m.

Neat trick for expensive pages which can be mostly cached with the exception of the “logged in as” bit—run them through the template system twice, caching the intermediary generated template.

djapianxapian s… at Sun 07 Jun 2009, 5:24 p.m.

A tutorial explaining using Xapian with django project. Djapian is a resuable app which makes this quite easy. The author provided great tips by the ability to search more than one model at a time.

testing django … at Sun 07 Jun 2009, 4:52 p.m.

Neat decorator for executing a Django view under high concurrency in your unit tests, to help spot errors caused by database race conditions that should be executed inside a transaction.

django tip user… at Sun 07 Jun 2009, 4:50 p.m.

A good trick which enables to use django user profiles as User object's property. Good use of Python property & get_or_create. Nice..

crawlers limite… at Sun 07 Jun 2009, 4:49 p.m.

A django middleware to prevent access to violent crawlers. This middleware basically checks if the REMOTE ADDR is one among the black listed crawlers. If so set the count in cache. This way if a threshold is crossed we can simply send a 403. Might be useful...

django protecte… at Sat 16 May 2009, 6:44 p.m.

A django reusable app which protects files while serving via the nginx frontend server. Thanks @lincolnloop.

django full ser… at Sun 15 Mar 2009, 9:02 p.m.

Here is an extension of django serializer which adds 3 more capabilities. Right now the django serializer outputs all attributes of the model object. This extension takes an arguement extras/ excludes/ relations. Cool!

matplotlib pyth… at Wed 25 Feb 2009, 10:22 a.m.

matplotlib - Python Graphing library. I was searching for a good python graphing library and found this. Looks like good enough for me. I need a good line graph plotting tool for a client.

djangosolr sear… at Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:34 a.m.

A reusable django app which integrates Solr searcg into a django app. PySolr is a python wrapper for the Solr search engine which is a dependecy. The only thing I dont like is Solr is a java based search which I dont like to run on my host. Anyway got to try this in my project.

pyflakes instal… at Sat 21 Feb 2009, 4:09 p.m.

PyFlakes is a tool to identify common mistakes in Python source-code. Redefined functions, Shadowed variables, Unused and undefined names, Unused or missing imports, Variables referenced before assignment

all your pixel … at Fri 20 Feb 2009, 3:09 p.m.

An XMLRPC interface to your django app. Useful to post data into the app from external resources. Ecto blogging app uses XMLRPC to posts into the blog engine.

smtp testing do… at Fri 20 Feb 2009, 3:09 p.m.

I didn’t know this trick: running “python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025” will start up a simple SMTP server which dumps received e-mails to the terminal instead of forwarding them on.

whoosh at Fri 20 Feb 2009, 3:09 p.m.

Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Got to give this a try. More alternatives means more throughput.