Django: uniform image resizing
Sometimes, you want all the thumbnails you're creating to be the same dimensions. For example, your layout may require a certain width so that all the items...
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per subdomain robots.txt in Apache
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Pulling Google Analytics data into Django
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Check if a block is defined in Django
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Show username in Django 500 error emails
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Django log form ValidationErrors
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Django HTML5 input placeholders
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Redirect console output to a Django HttpResponse
Say you have some Python code that prints to the console, and you want to re-use that code in a Django view, but output the print statements as HTML in the ...