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Sometimes I need to uncompress large archives located in remote locations - for instance, in Amazon S3. Most normal approaches to uncompressing archives involve resource-intensive processes, like downloading the entire file into memory - an approach not tenable for multi-gigabyte files.
Read the full post: Stream decompress archive files on S3
hasattr method headachePython's hasattr function checks to see if an object has an attribute - a
fairly straightforward and sensible purpose. When I used it, however, it caused
some very subtle problems that were tricky and unintuitive to debug.
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I've been working on an eCommerce website using Oscar Commerce, and it has been an experience. One of the issues I've encountered is that Oscar has a tremendous number of features that I will never, ever need,
Read the full post: Hiding parts of Oscar Commerce
Django assigns permissions to any user-submitted files it saves. If you don't explicitly set what these are, it uses an operating system default - which, in most cases, is 0600. If you're unfamiliar with unix-style file permissions, that means the following:
Read the full post: Better permissions for uploaded files in Django
Now that it is in beta, I decided that I should request HTTPS certificates through the new Let's Encrypt certificate authority. It is free, secure, and provides a unique way of requesting certificates.
Read the full post: My First "Let's Encrypt" Cert
My only beef with the Let's Encrypt process is that, by default, the utility wants you to disable your web server in the process of requesting a certificate, so that it can listen on port 80 (or 443) for a verification challenge. I host lots of sites, many of them high-traffic, and that's kind of a deal breaker.
Read the full post: Unobtrusive Let's Encrypt requests
Update: Tobias provided a canonical link to his StatusNet Move Account script.
Read the full post: GNUsocial Migration Script
I have been working with base64 encoding a lot recently, specifically regarding image files. Using base64 is a cool way to embed images in your CSS, and happens to be useful when writing Django tests that involve an image file field.
Read the full post: Working with base64 and images
Wooo! How exciting! This is the first post I'm making on the new Django-based blogging engine I've been writing. With this, I think the main FragDev.com overhaul is just about finished.
Read the full post: New Django Blog is Finished!