A change in direction: Python, Django, and Google App Engine
This is a cross-post from my other for-own-use developer blog. I’m posting it here because people often ask me what I’m so busy with. It’s been a while since my last post; I have been real busy....
View ArticleAllow your visitors to sign in via Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, OpenID, and...
The title says it all. Allow your visitors to sign in via Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, OpenID, and OAuth with django-socialregistration. Hence the name, “social registration”. I’ve been tinkering...
View ArticleDjango: Querying datetime aware objects in your local timezone
Situation: I have a model with a datetime field that I used as a timestamp. I’m in California’s timezone (“America/Los_Angeles”). The data is saved in UTC in MySQL (as confirmed by the ORM). I just...
View ArticleDjango template filter: Add zero-width space to break up long strings
Problem You have some long text with no spaces (e.g. long words or long URLs) and it messes up your alignment in your small <TD> or <DIV>. Perhaps in this situation (such as in a URL), you...
View Article3rd Party Django App Migrations on Heroku
Hopefully this will save someone the few hours I spent hunting for a solution. I’m using Django 1.9 on Heroku. I was using a 3rd party app (django_messages), which required database migrations. But the...
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