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Grunt is a powerful task runner with an amazing assortment of plugins. It's not limited to the frontend, but there are many frontend-oriented plugins that you can take advantage of to combine and minify your static media, compile sass and less files, watch for changes during development and reload your browser automatically, and much more…
Brandon Konkle
A colleague and I ran into a frustrating situation this evening when transitioning a site from Apache and modwsgi to uWSGI. Django's request.is_secure() wasn't working correctly. After much Googling and shouting at the SSH console, we finally discovered the UWSGISCHEME uWSGI parameter. To fix the issue, we edited /etc/nginx/uwsgiparams…
Brandon Konkle
I've always loved the concept of class-based views because views often become repetitive. There are a lot of common operations in a view that work best when they are defined once and reused. Class inheritance, in my opinion, is the best way to keep views DRY and allow you to focus on what makes each view different. At first, I used to b…
Brandon Konkle
I recently moved Pegasus News from Perlbal, Lighttpd, and Apache to Nginx and uWSGI. We balance the traffic between 3 physical servers, and the systems were struggling under the load even after weeks of Apache conf tweaking. We began having issues with excessively slow page loads, request timeouts, and intermittent errors with OGR trans…
Brandon Konkle
I wasn't able to find instructions in the Django docs for setting up a template_postgis database with postgis-1.5 and Postgres 8.4 on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). Below is what worked for me. GeoDjango installed via Ubuntu 10.04 packages #!/usr/bin/env bash POSTGIS_SQL_PATH=`pg_config --sharedir`/contrib createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis # Crea…
Brandon Konkle