Category Archives: Technology

Geeky stuff

RequireJS + Zurb Foundation

“use strict”; require.config({ baseUrl: ‘static’, paths: { jquery: ‘bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery’, foundation: ‘bower_components/foundation/js/foundation’, }, shim: { ‘foundation’: { deps: [‘jquery’] }, } }); require([‘foundation’], function(f){ $(function(){ alert(1); }); });

django-rest-framework: api versioning

Django Rest Framework is a very solid api framework, but it doesn’t provide out-of-box versioning mechanism, here is my attempt to implement version specific APIs. The goal is to achieve something like http://localhost:8000/api/(resource)/ http://localhost:8000/api/v1/(resource)/ plus allowing clients to specify the version in request header (X-Version), here is how we did it. Structure in side the… Read More »

My Vim Configuration

I have been using vim for a few years now and had been using my very own vim configuration, mainly with Nerdtree and CtrlP, in the past few days I have discovered a well packaged vim configuration with lots of plugins. But shortly I discovered that the tab space is set to 2, which I… Read More »

Django CMS Haystack 2.0 Search Index

Currently django-cms-search doesn’t support haystack 2.0 yet, so here is my modified version to work on haystack 2.0 based on import datetime from haystack import indexes from cms.models.managers import PageManager from cms.models.pagemodel import Page from cms.models.pluginmodel import CMSPlugin class PageIndex(indexes.SearchIndex, indexes.Indexable): text = indexes.CharField(document=True, use_template=False) pub_date = indexes.DateTimeField(model_attr=’publication_date’, null=True) login_required = indexes.BooleanField(model_attr=’login_required’) url = indexes.CharField(model_attr=’get_absolute_url’)… Read More »

Django admin UnicodeEncodeError

Don’t we all get confused by unicode encoding sometimes? Especially you wouldn’t expect this kind of error to happen in django admin. The problem is actually not in the admin section, the culprit is __unicode__ method in your model. when you have a unicode function like this: def __unicode__(self): return “{0}”.format(self.field_one) It is actually returning… Read More »

Django custom user model in admin, relation “auth_user” does not exist

I have a custom user model as below: class User(AbstractUser): subscribe_newsletters = models.BooleanField(default=True) old_id = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True) old_source = models.CharField(max_length=25, null=True, blank=True) And using the builtin UserAdmin admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin) While editing the user record works fine, but when I add a user, I get the following error Exception Value: relation “auth_user” does not exist LINE… Read More »