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Are you getting "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page." errors everywhere in the WordPress admin? I had this happening on a site, apparently the problem is that somebody changed the database prefix. It's a little suprising that this would totally break the admin, but whatever... As … more
I thought there was a simpler method of adding context through the urlconf but after having a look at the source this is what I came up with. Apparently there's only getcontextdata() so I used a lambda to add what I needed. Update: I should probably have used extra_context={'model': 'Frontpage'} more
So I had this project with a peculiar requirement: It had to do a redirect to an existing object when the CreateView failed because such an object already existed in the db. Not really hard to do but it took me a while to figure out.. so here's the code. more
Update: This script is almost obsolete as github will switch to their v3 API on may 1st, 2012 and doesn't display the API token any more... With this this script you can easily migrate a WordPress plugin from the wordpress.org svn repository to github. This script will NOT import the … more
Very annoying typo3 "bug" and it took me long to find a solution. See this Bug report for some more info. more
Hotlinking is always annoying, but easy to prevent. Here are two ways to do this with nginx. The first example simply returns a 405 when any hotlinking is detected. The second example prevents hotlinking only from specific domains. I used this when a site tried to embed media files through … more
Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Thinkpad X121e
Installing Debian (testing/wheezy) on the X121e (AMD) was pretty easy, but the documentation I found online was a little contradicting and confusing. I encountered a few problems. Ethernet Update: You can skip this section if you're using a Linux kernel 3.1.0 or newer. The Installation notes on the Debian Wiki …
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I recently moved my projects to gunicorn and needed init scripts. Here's what I'm currently using. I have the gunicorns running behind nginx, so you might want to tweak the IP and PORT settings. It might also be nice to use start-stop-daemon. more
I have an abstract base class that is used by various other models. The problem is that I need the same method that runs a query on all instances of those models, and that the manager isn't accessible via model instances. This is the code I ended up using. more
