Ever got to deploy day only to have errors streaming in about the site not being able to be accesses. Most likely in your logs or error emails / alerts you get something like this: (2003, “Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘127.0.0.1’ (111)”) What the hell does this mean, it means MySQL is down […]
The django-bootstrap3 package is used to show django forms with bootstrap. Most of the fields have their own bootstrap widgets except for: WIDGETS_NO_REQUIRED = ( AdminFileWidget, HiddenInput, FileInput, CheckboxInput, CheckboxSelectMultiple ) Unfortunately that makes the CheckboxSelectMultiple render as a single line of vertical checkboxes. Not making use of space that well. So how do we change […]
Hopefully you use a specialised document management store like Mayan, Blitdb or a file sharing site like box or dropbox if that is the focus of your project. However if you have a few fields in your django project that require a filefield or imagefield that can be classed as confidential then this is the […]
A mac is setup for the default user and usually requires a few things to make it into a development machine. It is certain that a fresh ubuntu install is more developer focused than a macbook. In this post I will walk you though what I do when setting up a new macbook for development. […]
I have never liked creating reports and custom tables based on filters for end users. I don’t think any developer does. It feels like a very generic task and can be achieved (more) easily and with greater agility with the use of SQL. The group_by does not really exist in django. It smartly hides that from […]