Category: Django

This blog entry desribes three Django Authenticaon backends you can use instead of the default “django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend”. Below is a brief description of each. EmailBackend –. . .

The get_object_or_404 is a handy Django shortcut. It keeps my views shorter. In my case however, I had the need to get the latest object.. . .

Hot off the presses is an open source implementation of the Framingham 10 Year Heart Attack Risk Calculator. This software package consists of a command-line. . .

Problem: You want to display some information in a database record in Django, but you also want to display the field’s verbbose name.  In other. . .

Problem: You are a good little Python developer and you use virtualenv in your Python development.  If you aren’t using virtualenv you’re doing it wrong.. . .

My company (Videntity) has been providing support to the Earth Institute (Columbia University). One of the tasks is to build a geospatial web service for. . .

Here is a little cheat sheet for getting Postgress setup on Ubuntu and creating an initial database and dtabase user.  this will work if you. . .

Here is a quick and simple configuration code recipe to serve the admin static files in a production environment using modWSGI and Apache 2. Modify. . .

I first planned to write this article right after my submission, but then when I was told I’d been selected as the winner so I. . .

1.) Create the file ‘.svnignore’ in you projects root directory. Use your favourite text editor: nano, vi, vim, emacs, etc to create and edit the. . .