django-softdelete project on github
| August 3, 2011 | Posted by admin under Programming |
Inspired by a post on override the default model manager to support soft-deleting objects in the database, I decided to implement it into one of my projects. (Yes, I know it’s an old post but it was new to me!).
However, just being able to filter the query sets returned to exclude items which had deleted=true wasn’t enough for what I wanted to do. Nor was just customizing the django’s admin interface to filter by on whether or not deleted was true or false. I wanted the modified manager and objects to soft-delete all related objects (models that referenced the object-being-deleted via a ForeignKey).
Thus, the django-softdelete project was born.
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Content split going forward
| July 10, 2011 | Uncategorized, Writing |
For quite a while, this blog had posts on two unrelated topics — creative writing and programming. Sure, some could make the case that writing good code is an art form, like a form of poetry, blah blah blah.
In general, though, people that came to this site for programming information didn’t care about the writing posts and vice versa. So, I’ve decided to “streamline” things and split the content between two different blogs — each one to be focused more specifically on their given topic (i.e., writing or programming).
So, the programming stuff stays on this blog and the writing content goes over to an older blog (that has just had some life breathed back into it) over on blogspot.
django-apikey Version Bumped
| July 3, 2011 | Programming |
I haven’t spent that much time on github until recently. Poking around there led me to create my first project repository and put in up for anyone to use: django-apikey. (The original post/announcement can be read here: “django-apikey — Key Based Authorization For RESTful Django Applications”)
It quickly got some feedback, all of which was very useful. One commenter suggested making some unit tests for the code, which forced me to learn how to write test cases for Django. Another person forked the code and made the stylistic changes to make it compliant with PEP 8.
Google PageSpeed and How I Learned To Love The mod
| June 8, 2011 | Web |
I’ve spent a lot of time fighting against plugins and WordPress in general in attempt to get my Google PageSpeed over 90. I had basically given up on getting into the high 90s due to my reliance on some external resources that don’t set long expire times or, in at least 2 cases, sheer laziness in not wanting to combine and minify external CSS or JS resources myself.
Over the last week, however, I decided to give site optimizations one last go and finally got my PageSpeed over 90 — to 93 on my front page to be exact. I also managed to get YSlow up to a B — it’s an A if I use the “small blog or site” ruleset.
How’d I do it? Read below the fold for the step-by-step.
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Sending HTML Email From Python
| June 7, 2011 | Programming |
Since I posted about using Python to send HTML email, things have changed in Python’s standard library. While that method still works, it’s better to use the new email package.
