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What is google app engine?

weboom — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.

It is kind of web hosting server I think.
Django can be also served with google app engine.

Restart apache server after change (in webfaction)

weboom — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:40:10 +0000

After you made changes,
to see its effect,
execute restart under apache2/bin/
>/home/pyncus/webapps/django11/apache2/bin/restart

How to comment in django template file

weboom — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:03:18 +0000

Ignore everything between {% comment %} and {% endcomment %}

How to install Django in linux

weboom — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:33:01 +0000

First, download Django-1.1.1.tar.gz. Then:

tar xzvf Django-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd Django-1.1.1
sudo python setup.py install

Django friendly Web hosting service

weboom — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:34:07 +0000

When I have been surfing around django sites, I saw many webfaction service advertised.

For my new project, I just started to search for web hosting service and finally decided to go with Webfaction.

The major concern I had in choosing webfaction was limited disk space and bandwidth.

However, I realized that anyway my website will have low traffic and need less amount of disk space in the beginning.

The positive perspectives were

1. many positive reviews and happy customers

2. the most django-friendly service, easy setup and they can also support mod_python (most other sites seem to support fastcgi only)

3. it has subversion support

This is beginning and I don’t know much about running the website. But let’s see how it works out!

Cool text

weboom — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:10:16 +0000

Found an interesting web site

cooltext.com

which provides a free graphic generation for web pages.

Django development from usb drive

weboom — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:57:10 +0000

I found an interesting python development method that can be done from a usb drive.

portable python

portableapps.com has many interesting apps:

1. commandprompt portable

2. notepad++ portable

3. sumatrapdf portable

4. putty portable

5. winscp portable

etc.

After installing portablepython

execute

SPE-Portable.exe

open manage.py

and run (F9) with argument “runserver”

How to setup testing email sending?

weboom — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:43:05 +0000

In settings.py
EMAIL_HOST = ‘localhost’
EMAIL_PORT = 1025
EMAIL_HOST_USER = ”
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ”
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = ‘testing@example.com’

2. Execute

$python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

Nothing will happen until you send email.

$python manage.py shell

>>>from django.core.mail send_mail

>>>send_mail(‘subject’, ‘body’,'from@example.com’,['youremail@gmail.com'])

This will display the mail.

How to customize template of django-comment?

weboom — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:43:05 +0000

Copy template files under

contrib/comments/templates/comments

into your default template directory.

Change your template files. Template loader will find files first at your default template directory.

Do you want to use datetime.datetime.now ?

weboom — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:49:13 +0000

Then,

import datetime