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Search any Site from Chrome's URL Bar
Being a web developer means referencing online documentation all the time. Google Chrome allows you to do this is a brilliantly efficient way. Here's how to do it.
# Go to the site you want to search and use it's search function to find an arbitrary word. I used read more…
- Sat 24th Apr
2010
Setuptools Zipimport IOError
After installing Python's Pygments module on my slice I ran into the following error when trying to run a django app.
@IOError: zipimport: can not open file /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg@
After far too much fruitless Googling I decided to simply rename the file read more…
- Sat 23rd Jan
2010
Django Gotchas when moving to a Production Server
If you're a developer learning Python/Django then you're almost certain to run into some of the same issues that I did. In particular, when deploying to a production server, the admin throws a 500 error and when trying to troubleshoot, your changes have no effect.
One of read more…
- Sun 27th Dec
2009
Python Module on Import Path Won't Import
I just ran into an interesting issue whilst implementing "Akismet":http://akismet.com/ spam protection on my contact form. Although the akismet.py module was on my import path, the module wouldn't import in a python shell.
What I'd done is downloaded the module from "Void Space":http read more…
- Sun 13th Dec
2009
Changing File Names with the Keyboard in Textmate
I've been using "Textmate":http://macromates.com/ for well over a year and it took me a significant portion of that time to work out (because I couldn't find any documentation) that you *can* actually edit a filename using the keyboard. Just select it and hit <space> This read more…
- Fri 11th Dec
2009
Problems with python-twitter
Although "python-twitter":http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ was working fine on my local development machine, I couldn't get it working on my Slicehost Ubuntu VPS. The error Django/Python would throw was:
@'module' object has no attribute 'Api' twitter@
Basically if you get any error where a module read more…
- Mon 7th Dec
2009
A New Chapter in Django
I've been keen to breathe some life into my blog for a while. As with all things, there just never seemed an opportunity until that is, I was introduced to the rapid web application development framework, Django. So, to coincide with my taking on a full time position at read more…
- Sun 6th Dec
2009