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Re: A Django Model Manager for Soft Deleting Records and How to Customize the Django Admin

gallard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:50:13 -0000

You can do this.
from somewhere import SoftDeleteManager

class NewManager(SoftDeleteManager):
'''new stuff'''

and in the model
objects = NewManager()

Re: A Django Model Manager for Soft Deleting Records and How to Customize the Django Admin

Metin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:30:50 -0000

Great writeup, thanks for that! I'll have question though.
Say I import SoftDeleteManager from an external file and use it with objects = SoftDeleteManager()
But now, I loose ability to define additional custom manager methods because objecst is already assigned, right? Is there a way to solve this other than inheriting from multiple manager classes?

Metin

Re: Static Files in Django on Production and Development

Ronald — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:13:43 -0000

thanks, man!

Re: Django Settings Site Domain example.com

Vladimir — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:11:16 -0000

Yes! Finally I know where that annoying example.com lives! Thank you!

Re: Django Settings Site Domain example.com

Rich — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:47:24 -0000

Thanks very much!
I think you just saved me a lot of stuffing around with settings.py

Re: Quick Thumbnails in Django

gallard — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:54:36 -0000

I updated this post. I was thinking the uploaded file was deleted after using it, but I just needed to reset the file. Django's InMemoryUploadedFile uses StringIO. Doing file.seek(0)
will reset the StringIO file to be ready to create another thumbnail.

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

gallard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:44:24 -0000

I just installed django-memcache-status to see the usage of memcache in the django admin interface. It looks pretty good and it's easy to install. Just download it and add it to installed apps. http://github.com/bartTC/django-memcache-status/

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

gallard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:33:22 -0000

Yeah amazon's content distribution network is awesome and not a bad price. I'd like to hook that up sometime soon. I didn't know that subdomains would help with the browser limit. That's a good idea.

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

Tim Rosenblatt — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:05:05 -0000

Great post, even for us non-Djangoers.

One other tip on the serving-static-files thing: move them off your server entirely and don't even use the processing power. Store them on S3. From there, you can use the CDN and map multiple subdomains to the content, so you can spread your requests across multiple subdomains.

The reason for this is that web browsers will not open more than N connections to a given domain. Mapping them across multiple subdomains means that an image/static-heavy page will open even more connections and load concurrently.

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

gallard — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:42:17 -0000

Thanks. I've never been to tutlist before. Sounds like a good idea.

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

JDStraughan — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:37:21 -0000

Added to http://tutlist.com

Great tutorial.

Re: How to Write Reusable Apps for Pinax and Django

gallard — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:36:30 -0000

Ah good question. I left that in from some old code I guess. It was probably from before I made the model work by being applied to any other object. I removed it from the code. Thanks.

Re: How to Write Reusable Apps for Pinax and Django

paul — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:17:38 -0000

Why do you have a tribes field your excluding on your form, but no tribes field in the model?

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

gallard — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:42:59 -0000

I haven't gotten into caching and increasing performance of my application code itself; I was starting with the server. Thanks for the suggestion. When I do get around to speeding up slow parts of my code, I'll keep Beaker in mind.

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

bbangert — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:36:36 -0000

Have you taken a look at Beaker? You can cache slow functionsthen, so that only parts of a request are cached as needed. It's easier to use with django now as well, I just blogged about it's use as a library on groovie.org

Re: How to Speed up Your Django Sites

gallard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:08:08 -0000

There are two more django apps that could help reduce http requests. I didn't find these until after posting this. http://code.google.com/p/django-sprites/ and http://github.com/rnk/django-media-bundler/tree... will help create image sprites so that your css background images are all one file request. CSS sprites are explained in more detail here http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites

Re: How To Use Triggers to Track Changes in MySQL

gallard — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:18:54 -0000

I don't think there is anyway to do it in the database, but you can still put the logic in your application. If you are using django, there are signals that will help get that done. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/topics/sig... If you aren't then you will need to program it into your project in some other way.

Re: How To Use Triggers to Track Changes in MySQL

Sean — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:03:18 -0000

Does any way work as trigger in mysql 4.1? I know that triggers is supported from mysql 5.0
thanks for help

Re: Setting up Apache2, mod_python, MySQL, and Django on Debian Lenny or Ubuntu Hardy Heron

gallard — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:52:36 -0000

That is a good post. I've been wanting to use nginx since you mentioned it 5 months ago and now I have no excuse for not using it.

Re: Setting up Apache2, mod_python, MySQL, and Django on Debian Lenny or Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Alexis Bellido — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:31:08 -0000

Hello Greg, I changed my setup and now I'm using Nginx. It works great. I have published how to configure Django with Nginx, Apache and mod_wsgi.

I hope you and your readers can give it a try and expect your comments.

Cheers.

Re: The People Make SXSW Awesome

gallard — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:28:43 -0000

I didn't walk out on any and I probably should have a few times. I'll have a backup plan next time.

Re: The People Make SXSW Awesome

timrosenblatt — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:25:29 -0000

Yes, SXSW was awesome. The presentations weren't as good as I had expected. I walked out of the "workflow processes" one, because it was a few Adobe people pitching Dreamweaver to us. Lame. The panels were slightly better, and the meeting people was definitely the most awesome.

Re: Static Files in Django on Production and Development

Kyle Dickerson — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:25:20 -0000

Great! That works perfectly for what I need. Thanks for the post.

Re: How to Break a MySQL Left Join

gallard — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:43:32 -0000

I'm glad that this has been able to help other people out

Re: How to Break a MySQL Left Join

Shane — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:33:51 -0000

You are awesome, stumbled upon you today after spending hours and hours stumbling about frustrated.