We haven't used it for the password reset, but we've modified this short url
code <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576918-python-short-url-generator/>
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Amazon doesn't have packages already in the distro we use CentOS.
If your time is limited, I'd also recommend using Amazon RDS rather than
managing your own MySQL server.
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On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:56 AM, ydjango wrote:
> I am setting up ngi
We serve the static files from Amazon S3.
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>
>
> I'm having an rather weak (CPU) server accesible over a rather slow network.
>
> Therfore my plan is to use
> multipl
Have you considered using feedburner? Google acquired them a few years ago. I
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> I am using
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/d
tee. Here's a manatee drinking from a garden hose
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We make the change at the web server and redirect all traffic to a static page.
If the site is down for maintenance, then the middleware won't work either.
On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Garth Humphreys wrote:
> I'm using the MaintenanceModeMiddleware to put my site into
> maintenance mode, but I
We use Amazon AWS. If you register a new account, you can get free service for
a year on their lowest tier.
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:30 PM, raj wrote:
> Hey guys,
> Just wondering if you could give me some hosts that are very cheap for
> django hosting? Is hostgator any good? I really don't know
On May 31, 2011, at 4:35 AM, Ivo Brodien wrote:
> What is the correct way to do the following:
>
> 1) Mobile App from which a user can create a user/profile on the Django site
> 2) Allow authenticated users to create on the site and query personalized
> data from the site
>
> This is what I
On May 25, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Pawel R wrote:
>> Synchronise what with what?
>
> Synchronize with other threads. I need this method to be invoked by only one
> thread at a time.
>
>> "It doesn't work" is utterly useless. What does it do?
>
> It lets more than 1 thread to invoke this method at
We run CentOS on our servers and use virtualenv for each of our various django
projects (multiple projects on one server), we haven't had any issues, but we
use fastcgi between the web server and django.
On May 23, 2011, at 7:00 PM, John Crawford wrote:
> I'd like to know what kind of
On May 19, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Ram wrote:
> hello everyone i am studying python for my college project in which i
> am sending some text and image in URL i want to store it to postgreSQL
> database i know how to read data from URL but not about images how can
> i perform it please help.
Storing
great for proxying all
> your incoming traffic to the proper service.
>
Shawn,
What do you like about gunicorn vs. fastcgi? How does it compare resource wise?
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use. So free products are preferred.
It's not free, but we use Amazon EC2. It's like having vmware, but you don't
have to manage the host box.
Micro instances are cheap and you can configure them to either throw away data
when powered down or save the data until the next time you need the box boot
Cloud computing is basically resources that you don't have to pay for when you
don't use them and no long-term commitments.
We use Amazon Web Services and can change our setup on an hourly basis.
We just finished consolidating some low utilization servers with Amazon EC2.
We cut our costs
Hello,
We are thinking about replacing our low-usage vBulletin forum with a django
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Has anyone used djangobb, pybb, or askbot?
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<http://www.michaelfogleman.com/2009/09/python-short-url-generator/> to
generate short URL's from the primary key (integer). The short_url code is
handy, because it doesn't need any extra columns in the database and it is
pretty hard for users to reverse engineer the primary key id from
w has your experience been so far?
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> random_results = Table.objects.raw("SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY
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> content to GAE
> I would like to know your thoughts on this
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e if someone worked on these kind of issues before where you would like
> to accept connections from outside not web request, but would like to receive
> some data from outside through sockets then please let me know how to best
> deal with it.
>
> thanks.
>
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I wouldn't consider using a UUID as multi-factor authentication.
All our API traffic is over https. We use the basic authentication included
with django-piston.
Any reason why you want to exchange username and password for an API Key? Why
not just authenticate each request with username and
e
> files from within DW. Does anyone know of another, Python-friendly,
> program that I could use for both code-editing and ftp?
>
I use BBEdit.
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air.
>
> One of the things I'd like to avoid is having to make every single
> many to many relationship have to use a custom "through" class just
> for synchronization, since that makes the admin interface less nice
> without adding any real functionality to the web users.
>
Your port numbers don't match.
What does Firebug or some other html debug tool say about the file?
On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:55 AM, octopusgrabbus wrote:
> I am trying to load static content (one css file) from the same apache
> server, using a different virtual host. I have no errors, but the
> caching and it didn't make any difference.
>
> Thanks,
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On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Shawn Milochik wrote:
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> I was using my iPhone at the time. I probably should have checked it on a
> desktop browser before replying to the thread. Sorry 'bout that.
>
On the iPhone, use two fingers to scroll to the cut-off text in the code bo
If I hadn't searched Google yet, I would have probably asked if there are any
packages, rather than asking if there are good ones that people would recommend.
On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote:
> Did you search Google yet?
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Unless you are trying to serve your CSS inline, which it doesn't appear to be
the case from your post, why wouldn't you serve your CSS files like any other
static file? Serve the static file with your web server or CDN and put the url
in the template, no magic required.
On Jan 19, 2011, at
IDs?
>
> On 12 January 2011 21:23, Eric Chamberlain <e...@rf.com> wrote:
>> We use a base64 or base36 (if you want compatibility with the contrib.admin)
>> encoded UUID, or generate a random 30-character string, the odds of a
>> collision is quite low.
>>
>&g
We use a base64 or base36 (if you want compatibility with the contrib.admin)
encoded UUID, or generate a random 30-character string, the odds of a collision
is quite low.
On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Micah Carrick wrote:
> I've got my site's authentication working with and email and password
ttp://server/mysite.fcgi/mysite.fcgi
>
> How do I fix this? A change in urls.py or a change in lighttpd.conf?
>
> Thanks
>
> john
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es not exist.
How do we get around this error? Shouldn't syncdb create the ContentTypes?
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Or is there a better way to migrate a database from postgres to MySQL?
On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Eric Chamberlain wrote:
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>
> We are trying to migrate between databases and we are running into a problem
> while trying to use dumpdata. We've tried:
>
> ./
lowing error:
Error: Unable to serialize database: 'ascii' codec can't encode
character u'\xe9' in position 18: ordinal not in range(128)
Is there a way to dump and load non-ASCII data?
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If you are using a UUID for the primary key, do you really need an integer?
We had a similar multi-tenant need and didn't want to leak usage information to
the users, so we used UUID instead of auto incrementing integers.
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Hutch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm porting an old
If you are using a UUID for the primary key, do you really need an integer?
We had a similar multi-tenant need and didn't want to leak usage information to
the users, so we used UUID instead of auto incrementing integers.
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Hutch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm porting an old
If you are using a UUID for the primary key, do you really need an integer?
We had a similar multi-tenant need and didn't want to leak usage information to
the users, so we used UUID instead of auto incrementing integers.
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Hutch wrote:
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>
> I'm porting an old
ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position
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We've done django based xmpp services and created middleware to enable django
to manage and authenticate ejabberd users.
On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:10 AM, Venkatraman S wrote:
> Well, I havent Googled, but was wondering whether how one can integrated XMPP
> based communications(PUNJAB?) etc with
ke the
> problem go away? About 1/50 of our requests fail with this bug.
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
>
> On Oct 7, 11:21 am, Eric Chamberlain <e...@rf.com> wrote:
>> We ran into the same error with ASIHTTPRequest, our fix was to turn off
>> persistent connectio
You may want to store a hash of the page and use that for the comparison, then
if the user wants to see the difference between the two pages, pull up the full
page.
On Oct 11, 2010, at 3:07 AM, jimgardener wrote:
> hi
> I am trying to write an application that checks a web page today and
>
We ran into the same error with ASIHTTPRequest, our fix was to turn off
persistent connections.
On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Danny Bos wrote:
>
> Hey there,
> I've got a new error I'm totally stumped on. All searches are saying
> it's a "http vs https" or similar.
> I'd be keen to hear your
email address, so we can
avoid username collisions if the user changes their email address.
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> store. The question is if this could be done efficiently? If "yes", how can
> it be done?
>
Does django need to be in the loop for file download? Is there some reason why
the web server can't mount and serve the files like any o
Dan,
We also run CentOS 5 on our production servers and have various django projects
running Python 2.6.2 & 2.7.
I'd stick with an OS that you know and use virtualenv to isolate the python
version to the django project.
On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:54 AM, Dan wrote:
> I have been using CentOS 5
d to be really, really hard to reproduce or track down.
>> I only get it because I run a SaaS with dozens users uploading photos
>> every day, and some requests happen to fail starting the upload and
>> end 500'ing.
>>
>> What about filling a ticket against Djan
ot; page?Do you do this directly via apache or do you do it via
> django?
>
We have the front end web server redirect all web traffic to a static
maintenance page. If we are upgrading the site, it typically means that the
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Take a look at django-storages, it's what we use to store audio files in S3.
It's a pretty robust django storage backend with decent community support.
On Aug 6, 2010, at 5:06 AM, almacmillan wrote:
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>
> I am a total beginner to programming and Django so I'd appreciate help
> that
sounds like what you really want is a custom authentication backend so that
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Anything wrong with adding a flag to the profile model? If the flag is not
set, show the profile stuff?
It keeps all the profile management in one model.
The "flag" could even be a timestamp, so you could show the prompt again, if
after X time the user has not added anything to their profile.
I would use auth.User as is.
When a new user (no existing django session) enters the code, django creates a
user account (random username and password) behind the scenes and logs in the
user. Then the user is identifiable as long as they stay on that machine. Set
the logout interval to
It sounds like Django is working and your issue is with the web server
configuration.
In you case it sounds like there are two ways you could install Django, add a
virtual host to the machine, or configure apache to serve Django from a
subdirectory.
Unless you have extra hostnames available,
ples of large systems written in .Net?
Amazon, Google, Facebook, twitter, et al. are not using .Net.
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of the other posters have mentioned. I wouldn't worry about getting sued, what
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> of running that code as the user.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Store the user's credentials, not very secure, or use kerberos for
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Django can definitely do more than serve up websites. We use django to run our
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telephony servers also communicate with Django via web services. D
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On Feb 6, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Atamert Ölçgen wrote:
> On Saturday 06 February 2010 12:23:16 Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>> On do, 2010-02-04 at 11:01 -0800, Eric Chamberlain wrote:
>>> I'm using the object_list generic view and it seems there should be a
>>> way to pull
uot;,
line 497, in _add_items
[self._pk_val] + list(new_ids))
File
"/Users/eric/working/rfapns/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/db/backends/util.py",
line 19, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
ProgrammingError: can't adapt
What am I doing wr
ome and Pythonic.
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> - Jason
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update=False):
if self.only_me is True:
# if this is the new default, set others to False
MyModel.objects.exclude(pk=self.pk).update(only_me=False)
super(MyModel, self).save(force_insert, force_update) # Call the "real"
save() method.
On Jan 14, 2010, at 2:44 AM, nameless wrote:
> I want to use "id" as identifier for each user. So every user will
> have an url like this:
>
> http://www.example.com/827362
>
> I don't want username for my project.
> So, if I can't delete it, I think to insert email in username field
> and I
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A friend has a few hundred LeadTek BVA8055's and need to know how to bulk
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On Jan 14, 2010, at 6:45 AM, nameless wrote:
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>
> I want username field is automatically filled with this value:
>
> username = str(n);
>
> where n is a number of 10 digits ( autoincremented or random ).
>
> .
>
> I tried to add this in save method:
>
> username =
hat you used
> a varchar field within Django. ?
>
> On Jan 10, 2:29 am, Eric Chamberlain <e...@rf.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 9, 2010, at 8:59 AM, G B Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, that is a good resource. So this is what I am going to do : -
>>> -- mod
that trouble, you may as well use a UUID field
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There's nothing special about settings.py. You could do something like:
from Crypto.Cipher import Blowfish
blowme = Blowfish.new(SECRET_KEY)
DATABASE_PASSWORD = blowme.decrypt(ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD)
Securing SECRET_KEY is left as an exercise for the reader.
On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Eyüp
lf).save(force_insert, force_update) # Call the
"real" save() method.
class Meta:
unique_together = (('partner','default_reg'),)
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> Note that sometimes this doesn't really work, depending on your model
> hierarchy. You might have to throw in the towel on 'extra' inlines.
> The key is to filter only when it's bound, and to work around the
> filter if it's not bound.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Dec 16, 11:
I'd like PartnerRegistration's default_provider field to be filtered in
PartnerRegistrationInline, like how Partner's default_provider field is
filtered in PartnerAdmin.
When I try the code below, I get a DoesNotExist exception in:
self.fields['default_provider'].queryset =
*kwargs)
The code above generates an AttributeError:
'ReverseManyRelatedObjectsDescriptor' object has no attribute 'all'
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On Dec 9, 2009, at 9:41 AM, bruno desthuilliers wrote:
> On 9 déc, 14:10, Eric Chamberlain <e...@rf.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We're not sure how can we represent the following data structure in the
>> django model?
>>
>> Grandparent Object
>
lookups if
possible.
Is there a better way to implement this?
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On May 7, 2009, at 10:36 AM, George Song wrote:
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> On 5/7/2009 8:56 AM, Eric Chamberlain wrote:
>> Our view is taking too long to render, can anyone offer suggestions
>> to
>> improve its speed?
>>
>> There are 5830 profiles.
>>
>> /Total que
Our view is taking too long to render, can anyone offer suggestions to
improve its speed?
There are 5830 profiles.
Total query count: 23809
Total duplicate query count: 493
Total SQL execution time: 66.003
Total Request execution time: 142.931
class Profile(Model):
id =
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> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Eric Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We have five or so ManyToMany fields (with 10,000+ and growing total
>> entires in each field, only a few are selected for any one prof
we would like as admin loads all the field possibilities.
Most of the time we use the admin to view the data, not make changes.
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