Content tagged with "django"

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Last saturday I participated as a coach in DjangoGirls Rome, the first DjangoGirls event in Italy.

DjangoGirls is an international organization which helps to organize free workshops aimed at bringing women into the IT community.

I am proud to have actively participated as a coach and helped the organization and the promotion of the event: we also managed to get an interview on IlFattoQuotidiano and a mention on Repubblica, two of the most important Italian newspapers.

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I wanted to implement this functionality in my django projects for some time now and I finally had the chance to work on a project that has this requirement in the specification.

This is an attempt to a django reusable app that aims to be functional but flexible. It's based on django-tagging-autocomplete and depends on django-tagging.

Features:

• Tag editing
• Autocompletition
• Customizable maximum tags number
• Costomizable max length of each tag
• Customizable minimum amount of letters before the autocompletition starts
• Aims to be flexible (help me if you want)

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I am very happy to announce (with a bit of delay) that next sunday i'll present Nodeshot, an open source project in which I started contributing this summer, at the Open Terni Festival 2011, a festival about the open source world organized in Terni, Italy...

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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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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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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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I noticed StaticGenerator while I was looking for some cache invalidation solution and I understood that would have been just perfect for my web-site, but the instructions on its web-site show only how to make it work with Nginx configured as frontend server. What if you want to stick on Apache? Read the rest to know...

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