Like many good apps, django-extensions either adds minor functionality or simplifies something django was already capable of doing. Some built-in Django functionality is misunderstood, misused, or simply ignored for difficulty, some are just plain tedious. At one point or another, every developer goes through these steps: Faced with a simple, …
Here’s a Django tutorial on registration. Registration allows you to have users. A weak registration system puts your site at risk of spammers getting in. A good registration system takes time to set up, even with the current handlers that Django has in place – while the basic functionality is …
The need may arise for different versions of the same image to be used in different parts of your site. ImageKit is an app that takes care of processing your source image and storing and retrieving the different versions. The project’s github page with install and usage instructions is at https://github.com/jdriscoll/django-imagekit. In …
**This article refers to outdated and deprecated technology** Sentry catches any exception that your django project raises, and stores it in your database for future reference – much like its previous name describes. It already provides robust documentation: http://readthedocs.org/docs/sentry/en/v1.6.2/ However, with error logging such an integral part of producing a …
We use recaptcha to protect against bots. I will show you how to integrate Google’s reCAPTCHA with your django forms. Here are the steps to make it work: Obtain a public and a private key. Download a plugin for python. Render the widget in the form page. Verify the answer by …
Cyclomatic Complexity (or Conditional Complexity) (CC) is a means of measuring the complexity of a given program. Complexity is measured by counting ‘decisions’ – the more decisions a program goes through in a single run, the more logical branches it has, and the more complex it becomes. The number itself …
Let’s say you wanted to provide third-party application support for your web application. You’ll probably make an app that handles API calls, set up views, and compile the data you’ll be sending out in some safe format, such as JSON. You’ll also have to provide some documentation, which will complicate …
Search is an essential tool for any website, and is a feature often requested by both site owners and users. While the built-in Django QuerySet system will often suffice, sometimes you’ll just need a more powerful, and more generic search system. It’s also necessary for features like AJAX-powered automatic search …
Django-grappelli provides a revamp of the existing Django admin look and feel. In itself, it simply makes your site look better—you’ll need this in case a site also needs to provide admin access to the product owner. For this case, however, we’re using Grappelli as a dependency for django-filebrowser. Django-filebrowser …
Django-articles (articles) is a fully-featured blog engine. This is useful for those who wish to set up a blog that’s tightly coupled to an existing site, or those who simply wish to have their own Django-based blog or public blog site. Django-articles has recently moved from the in-house django.contrib.comments onto …
