Some nice photos i've taken on a trip to Venice in March 2011.

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If you are using Django 1.2 and you tried installing Django Tagging Autocomplete you will have noticed that the autocompletition won't work unless you oad a second copy of jQuery. Since I find that a very crappy solution I found a solution that works better for me and I want to share it with you. 

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If like me you are using Django StaticGenerator to speed up your blog you should have noticed that your comments won't work anymore, since StaticGenerator will cache also the fields used by the django comment app to block spam and CSRF attacks.

In this post I'll share with you a quick and easy solution with jQuery.

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These photo were taken on 9th October in the early morning to catch the sun rising in Aguas Blancas Beach.

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Html purifier is a Joomla plugin based on the HTML Purifier library.

I developed the plugin in late 2007 with Matteo Maria Baccano, another PHP programmer I was working with at that time and now I just updated the plugin after a long time.

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If you use Django you will surely know that its url routing is quite strict regarding the prettiness of its URLS but there are still cases in we need to handle query string parameters, like when dealing with external services that return a URL like: callback?verification_code=088145235648fs689sa56h&userid=854 . What to do in this case?

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Skip links, also known as "Skip Navigation Links", are a good way to improve the accessibility of a website, providing an important shortcut for keyboard users and screen readers to browse the website, without forcing them to tab (or worse read) through the whole page before getting to the content they're interested in.

Unfortunately, many designers forget to include this element in their design. Some of them do not want to use it for an aesthetic reason, some others simply ignore it. For both cases there is an easy way to fix this!

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The standard Django FileFields assume you want to upload a file in a subdirectory of MEDIA_ROOT, what if you want to upload the file in a private directory above the web root, not accessible via http?
How can you serve the files then?

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Immagine that you need to add the possibility to upload a PDF or Zip file in the django admin, but you want to be sure your client will upload only these two filetypes and not other ones.
You might also need the same functionality in the frontend, so why not use "ModelForm" and have just one validation for both applications (admin and frontend)?

In this short post I'll share with you my simple solution.

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