Python, CherryPy and Websockets – hosted
To set up websockets on a host can take a few extra steps. The host needs to know what to do with the websocket traffic. It took a few attempts to get a Python/websockets...
Category: Python
Python/Zope community website and email discussion system
In 1999 I took over the running of an online community for business and personal coaches. Initially a simple email discussion list run on the Mailman open source software, once we hit 500+ members...
Administrate Project – Technical Project Manager
The client, a highly respected training company, was using an in-house developed system to manage the courses, bookings, delegates, and sales and marketing processes. When the business outgrew the system they asked me to...
Linux package management: apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, wajig
When you set up your Linux system, you typically grab an image, burn it to DVD, boot the machine off the DVD and follow the instructions. The image will contain the most recent (stable)...
Django Migrations
Django has a great system for maintaining your database structure, for keeping your RDMS (typically MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) in line with your Django-defined Models, and within your version control system. I recently hit...
DevOps – intro
If I understand it correctly (it looks like the jury is still out), a DevOp is someone who helps developers be more productive by giving them the tools they need. As a freelance developer,...
Django – a very simple unit test
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a methodology for developing programs where you first write the test, and then write just enough code to make your program pass all tests TDD makes it far less...
Using PostgreSQL with Django
Here is how go set up Django to work with PostgreSQL Install necessary libraries, etc sudo apt-get install libpq-dev sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install postgresql-contrib Create a new database and user sudo...
Installing PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL seems to be the most popular DBMS (database management system) with Django developers, although MySQL is also used a lot To install PostgreSQL, I used Linux Mint’s Software Manager (search for “postgresql”) I also...
Serving static files in Django
From https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/: For a production site you probably want to configure the server to serve static files directly, without going through Django. For a test site, you can use the following approach In settings.py,...
