Things read about Django

Great article on how to serve media in a very performant way.

Serves images from a local directory, but if it doesn't find it locally, then go look for it on a server. This is useful for sites with very large amounts of static content. Instead of copying all your prod images to dev every time you update the database.

Admin for mptt enabled Models.

This combination of settings.py admin_reorder_tag.py and admin/base_site.html gives you the ability to define custom ordering for the apps and models in the admin app.

Add this to your model to be able to get their admin change link from anywhere.

Very nice: Put this in your templates/admin/change_form.html template and you will be able to double click a manytomany in a multi select to be able to edit it.

JSTree implementation for Django admin.

Django: Flexible date form fields accepting (almost) any input at elsdoerfer.name

Looks great: A Django app for per-object-permissions.

A great collection of patterns which are occuring commonly with Django.

Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.

Looks pretty good, maybe I'll give it a try.

Great slides on how to test Django projects.

Uses nose test runner, which will discover ALL tests in the application (not just from the tests module of your applications).

Showing how to configure Eclipse with PyDev to give you code complete, and breakpoints.

Show part A or part B by chance. Can be useful (replace elements by ads, etc).

Automates image processing for Django models. Resize, process and cache multiple versions of your image files. Access newly created files with a standard API. Supports alternate storage schemes such as Amazon S3.

A generic Django application to attach Files (Attachments) to any model.

Some examples of transparently caching things in Django.

Django Granular Permissions allow you to setup per-row permissions.

Deployment von Webanwendungen kann anstrengend und nervtötend sein - insbesondere dann, wenn stets dieselbe Routine notwendig ist, um die Webanwendung auf dem Server zu aktualisieren und ggf. zu warten. Dieser Artikel erklärt den Einsatz von fabric.

A basic newsletter app for the Django webframework.

Generic storages for Django: S3 storage ImageStorage OverwriteStorage MogileFSStorage FTPStorage Database storage

Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.

This snippet display a human readable date diff. You give it the your date in parameter and the diff with datetime.datetime.now() is returned. The diff must be positive to be more accurate (future dates are not supported). Will give something like: less than 1 minute ago 13 minutes ago 1 hour ago etc.

Großartige Anleitung, wie man Django Sprachen-abhängige Datumsanzeigen beibringt.

Post new saved objects to Twitter. (Using string-representative of object an get_abolute_url()-method, which will be tinyurl'zed.)

Great collection of command, field and admin extensions for my favourite web framework: Django.

Great idea, to have flatpage-snippets (called flatblocks) to load some small texts into any template. Well done zerok!

This project is an attempt to provide a low-level, somewhat magical, approach to handling row-level object caches.

Simple search with Q object you just pass a list of fields and the search string then it will come up with a object to use in a filter.

Drop this package wherever you want, import the decorator, and use it with one argument to decorate any function you want (@xmlrpc('pingback.ping')). That function is now available on your XML-RPC interface, available through this view.

The default server_error view uses Context instead of RequestContext. If you were depending on a context processor to make MEDIA_URL available in your templates, your 500.html template will not render with the correct image paths. This handler adds MEDIA_URL (and nothing else) back to the context that is sent to the template.

There are times where an app needs to have some value defined by the user. However obtaining this value is somewhat not very clear. Django projects have a settings.py module that stores settings that a site developer might want to adjust based on the site or server.

Django's ORM supports SQL group_by and having clauses, and it has for quite some time.

One of the neat things you can do in Django 1.0 is write custom management commands. Django gives you an API that you can use to easily write code that you can execute on the command line. We are familiar with some of the built-in ones such as syncdb and runserver. This post will cover how to create our own.

Great entry explaining a lot of ways how to debug Django projects.

A subclass of HttpResponse which will transform a QuerySet, or sequence of sequences, into either an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file formatted for Excel, depending on the amount of data. All of this is done in-memory and on-the-fly, with no disk writes, thanks to the cStringIO library.

This is quite generic, can auto generate text version of the mail if required.

Inspired by snippet 1126, I thought I would post a module that stores crontab entries in a database, with a less powerful, but more end-user friendly API.

A templatetag to add Gravatar support for Django comments.

This field and widget is enableing the user to put a start and end value.

You would define a table, which is sort of a cross between a model and a form, define it’s columns (i.e. fields), and then tell it how you want to sort, filter and group the data.

GeoNames provides a useful data file with information about every country in the world (DjangoPeople uses this). Here's an importer that grabs the file from the web and turns it in to a list of dictionaries.

The Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response. It is a small toolbar that, when activated, situates itself in the top-right location of the browser window. When particular panels are clicked, more details about that panel's content are displayed.

Handy tip to auto set a superuser afer ``syncdb``.

Example of how to use Akismet with the new comments framework of django.

[DE] Ein oft gewünschtes Feature im Admin-Interface ist "Lasse den Benutzer nur seine eigenen Einträge bearbeiten", anders ausgedrückt: Rowlevel-Permissions. Dieser Beitrag erklärt dies wunderbar.

Improved message System for Django with Message Type. (E.g. "error").

Use this abstract model if you want to add "order" to a given model. Once you do, you will get automatic "up" and "down" links for each model row.

Answer of how to associate images and files with your articles, blog posts, etc.

Django middleware that enables to view debugging information in production

This is a simple manager that offers one additional method called relate, which fetches generic foreign keys (as referenced by content_type and object_id fields) without requiring one additional query for each contained element.

A simple message queuing service created with Django.

When working with generic relations in Django you have to be quite careful not to end up with n+1 queries for a simple fetch of n elements.

A custom FileSystemStorage made for normalizing extensions. It let's PIL look at the file to determine the format and append an always lower-case extension based on the results.

A filter to resize a ImageField on demand.

[DE] Wenn man Applikationen mit Django entwickelt gibt es einige Konventionen für die benennung von Dateien und Ordnern aber gleichzeitig auch viel Freiheit, denn Django arbeitet mit normalen Python-Modulen.

A collection of semantic resources in order to ease the implementation of semantic Django web apps.

As raised in a recent discussion on django-developers, this code is one solution for creating an audit trail for a given model.

Converter for old admin to newformsadmin.

A common pattern in Django is to create a TextField intended for Markdown text (i.e. description) and a companion non-editable TextField for storing the HTML version (i.e. description_html). This field encapsulates this pattern in a single field.

Here's a nice way of easily passing only certain settings variables to the template.

This will fetch the Top Artists List for the given username from Last.fm.

Testing and optimizing a django application. Really great tutorial.

James explains, how any why he uses amazon's S3 service.

A django application that uses the friendfeed's api to show your lifesteaming.

I like this because in the admin interface it looks pretty much like a file field and you can just click to upload.

backupdb command allows to make a database backup automatically. It's supposed to do this just before a syncdb, reset or flush command in a server deployment.

RowCacheManager is a model manager that will try to fetch any 'get' (i.e., single-row) requests from the cache.

This is a simple view I'm using to log people into our app using ExtJS's AJAX form submission.

I found myself putting {%load ... %} in every template that I was writing, so DRY .. I created an app called 'globaltags' and in its __init__.py, I just pre-load the tags that I use frequently.

This tag can be used to calculate a python expression, and save it into a template variable which you can reuse later or directly output to template.

A Django reusable app to deal with timezone localization for users.

Sometimes, though, the Django version won’t meet your precise requirements, or you’ll want to use a field that is entirely different from those shipped with Django.

add support for multiple database connections

umbrella for reusable django apps

Addition to the django ORM - many people has asked for aggregation.

The Super Juicy List of Pluggable Applications

Simply adds an attribute is_ajax to a request object, indicating if the request was made via Ajax. Allows you to reuse a lot of POST processing view code to which you'd like to progressively add Ajax: if request.is_ajax: return JsonResponse(some_json) els

Some ideas of how to create an auto-slug field.

All that I needed after all was a FriendFeed account that would centralize all my feeds.

A great and easy to use admin interface designed for mobile phones.

Private messaging system

Middleware to logout a user after a certain time. (Defines in ``settings.AUTO_LOGOUT_DELAY``.)

Enables ``application/xhtml+xml`` content-type for browsers, which support it. Others get the usual ``text/html``.

Amazing django information on Unit testing, middleware, signals, forms & ajax, template tags, custom fields, openID and REST

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.