There is a requirement from one of my project to insert video ads before the actual video gets played. There are ways to do it, one is to use JWPlayer and OVA plugin, or the other way is to write your own javascript to control the playback. In the following demo, shows how you can… Read More »
I have quite a few goals (ok, things) I want to achieve before I die, couple of those are writing an iOS app and writing a game. I have had an attempt to write a 1945 style vertical scroll shooting game in python using pygames, and I cannot remember why I stopped and the source… Read More »
I think it’s necessary to create a video to demonstrate how quickly web application development can be. Enjoy!
TinyMCE https://code.google.com/p/django-tinymce/ Want to add WYSIWYG editor to your TextFields? This app will sort you right out, basically this app will provide a HTMLField for you to use instead of just plain TextField and it will automatically render a rich text editor for you. It does require some basic configuration, here is a sample config in… Read More »
https://github.com/django-mptt/django-mptt MPTT stands for Modified Preorder Tree Traversal, which really means for working with parent child relationships, this app will do some work under hood to make travelling the relationship much quicker and easier, such as some API methods like get_ancestors() etc. Some good usage example would be, category hierarchy, family tree etc.
South A data migration tool, what it really means is if you change the data model and want to keep the data in there, you will need this app. At first I thought it’s tedious for early stage development when data isn’t important (why not just syncdb??), but once I realised it’s actually quicker to… Read More »
First download and install mysql for Mac OSX Install virtualenv, create a virtualenv and activate it Pip install mysql-python, and you will see an error “EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found” Find the mysql_config by running “sudo find / -name ‘mysql_config’” Go to your /path to virtualenv/build/mysql-python Edit site.cfg Uncomment this line “#mysql_config = /usr/local/bin/mysql_config” and change… Read More »
Bought this little device from rsonline UK, for about $60 with clear case including postage, took 2 weeks to get here. Bought an Apacer Micro SD 32gb class 10 from PBtech for about $58, you can get it cheaper from pricespy but I couldn’t wait any longer. I am a mac user so I used… Read More »
We have been working on a python/django project which is SOA oriented, all sites(systems) are internal and communications are done via http restful api requests. Our setup share the same set of memcache servers to cache data individually on each sub site(system). Often when site A wants data from site B, site A makes a… Read More »
I came across this python performance tips article this afternoon and found it very interesting. Will definitely start using those tips in my next project.