Running manage.py through SSH
I have been having the problem trying to run manage.py on a live server. Firstly as it is on linux, it is necessary to prepend windows style statements with python. python manage.py runserver instead...
View ArticleGetting Django to recognise source code changes on Apache
When uploading code changes to the live server, unlike the Django development server, Apache does not restart automatically. It is easy to get Django to recognise the source code changes by restarting...
View ArticleImport / Export a mySQL database
This can also be used for backing up a database. Resource: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/112 Export / backup database: mysqldump -u username -p database_name > dbname.sql Import / restore backup...
View ArticleMySql-python: Pre Compiled Installer
Setting up the mysql python library requires a C compiler. There is a built in compiler with visual studio, however configurations took some time, and still wasn’t making too much headway. Instead you...
View Articlehtcaccess
Resources for learning about htcaccess: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/apache-htaccess/-htaccess-guidance http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml...
View ArticleCreating paged documents in a web environment
As a web developer, it is an ingrained design pattern (with plenty of accompanying tools) to generate mark up which is then rendered in a clients browser. There are however, often situations when...
View ArticleWordPress – Tribe Events Calendar
I have been using the tribe events calendar plugin for wordpress – which is excellent. I have been customising the list view, and was trying to add an additional link to the event. Elsewhere on the...
View ArticleReset style sheet
I have used the Meyer reset style sheet in the past – I will add some feed back after having tested it.
View ArticleTwitter Bootstrap – compiling on windows.
I had tried a couple of the tools for compiling less on windows, but none seemed to compile bootstrap out of the box. Instead I found Sylvain’s post which was exactly what I was after. It was a great...
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Narcissistic Numbers
A narcisistic number is a number where the sum of the nth powers of the digits of an n-digit number is equal to the number. For instance, 153 is a narcissistic number of length 3 because 1^3 + 5^3 +...
View ArticleReading csv files
This post is a Python solution to a programming challenge from Programming Praxis. The challenge is to read a csv file and convert it into an html table. On first inspection, this seems quite a simple...
View ArticleGoogle Code Jam – Helper classes
Google Code Jam is a programming competition, where you have to write a solution to a problem, that can then process a file containing sample input data. The competition is performed under time...
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