Postgres queries are CaSeSensitivE unlike in MySQL. When a simple Model.objects.get(field=’hello’) would get the record. Using a postgres db you would need to use field__iexact=’hello’ Even unique doesn’t work with different cases with standard postgres. That is why django has the CIText Mixin and postgres has the citext extension. Could be a feature not a […]
I built a time tracking, leave application and billing application with django, called crowdminder. The product was created in partnership with a consulting company, they paid me and I developed it for them while retaining co-ownership. I have seen that they have benefited from this simple application and know that many other consulting companies in […]
Introduction Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations: An inidividual who intends only his own gain is led by an invisible hand…by pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade […]
I’ve been building an application that needs precicion as it is dealing with money, finance and trading. For these tasks there is a special datatype called decimal.Decimal that python has built in. It has many advantages but has a few disadvantages when displaying the decimal to the user. The trailing zeroes are shown (which is […]
When days are dark, friends are few, cash is low and we need to take our django sites and put them on a single server. I am assuming you have site up and running that is using django with nginx and gunicorn. Now we need to do a few modifications to get the new site […]