Django: persist some session state across login/logout boundaries
By definition session state is tied to the session. When you log out, you obviously don't want the server remembering who you are. Likewise, session state i...
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Django: ditch objects.using() in favor of a per-view decorator to switch databases
Django has a "multiple databases" feature that lets you read/write data from more than just the default database. I'm going to show you how to switch databa...
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Trying to get started with Django nose today on an existing project, I kept getting the following error trying to run my empty test suite:
Django/Postgres: Optimize COUNT(*) by replacing with an estimate
Every week I take a look at a report generated by the excellent pgFouine tool for our production Postgres database. This week, there was a surprising query ...
Django/NewRelic Quickstart (gunicorn.d + Django 1.3 hack)
New Relic is an excellent web application performance reporting tool. After a great experience using it on Heroku, I went to enable it for an existing self-...
Deploying Django staticfiles to Heroku via Hudson/Jenkins
Starting in Django 1.3, you can use the built-in staticfiles feature to bundle up css, javascript, images and other static resources for deployment to a CDN...
Django management command to list, filter and exclude models from a fixture
Dumping Django data to a fixture and loading it back up again are accomplished with the built-in management commands dumpdata and loaddata. However, loading...
Django/Heroku quickstart for existing applications
Getting a brand new Django application running on Heroku is fairly simple. There is a great tutorial for it on devcenter.heroku.com. I would recommend going...
varnishlog top pages by IP address
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testing facebook apps with ssh reverse tunnels
If you're writing a Facebook app, you may have to jump through hoops to test it out against your local development machine. Facebook requires that you confi...