Django ManyToMany error: “Cannot resolve keyword XXX into a field”
This week I was doing some refactoring, and started getting the following exception in Django's admin site. This was under Django 1.1.1, and Python 2.6.4.
Recent Posts
Slicehost: Six month review
Six months ago, I opened an account with Slicehost for a work project. They provide a VPS service, which is essentially just a virtual machine in the cloud....
click on a link (follow) via jQuery/JavaScript
You might reasonably assume that it would be possible to fire a click event on an "A" element (link) via JavaScript, at which point the browser would fire a...
Ubuntu keyboard shortcut cheatsheet
Everyone assumes that using keyboard shortcuts is more efficient than using the mouse. But by how much? One 2005 study found that keyboard shortcuts are app...
Java hack to deal with Windows file paths in Linux
Say you have a large legacy ColdFusion app on top of Java that runs on Windows. File access is done both via java.io.File and by CFFILE (which in turn also ...
How to not get caught in spam filters
Reliably sending email without getting caught in spam filters is a full-time job, for someone. Surely not for an end-user, but for every end-user email, the...
Apache fix for IE “webpage has expired” on back button
When you refresh a webpage that was the result of a HTTP POST, your browser asks you if you want to reload.
useful decorators for Django views
Python implements a light version of aspect oriented programming via decorators. I find myself using them often, specifically for Django views. Here are a f...
duplicate values with jQuery.cookies (set the path!)
A program should follow the "Law of Least Astonishment". What is this law? It is simply that the program should always respond to the user in the way that as...
Too cute: Django schema migration tools
Like Ruby on Rails, Django uses a model API to abstract the database layer. A command-line script creates schema for new object definitions. Unlike Ruby on ...