django

I am working on an application that, besides providing a dynamic website, also talks to an iPhone application. What happens when the iPhone, or a web visitor, triggered a bug in the application?
Django actually provide a nice mechanism to report error in its “batteries included” goodness. You can easily setup the Django environment so that [...]

This barely qualifies for a blog post, but what to do if you loaded, via django-admin.py loaddata
a full json file from someone during testing, and don’t have their user’s password?
Just run the django-admin.py shell, and by hand reset all the passwords:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
for u in Users:
u.set_password(’secret’)
u.save()
That’s why you have to keep your shell login [...]

This is a common mistake. When defining a FileField or an ImageField, you need to specify
where the files are stored. This is done by specifying a relative path in the upload_to
argument. Django will then store your files in a subdirectory as named, under the MEDIA_ROOT
directory. But, don’t put a leading slash in the relative path. [...]