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Debugging Django in Production Revisited

2009 September 05

In a previous post I talked about a neat middleware to debug production environments in Django. It basically checked to see if you were a superuser, or if you were in settings.INTERNAL_IPS, and if so, then it displayed a technical 500 ...

Debugging Django in Production Environments

2008 November 15

Nick had a nice post about setting DEBUG based on the hostname of the server that you're site is running on. This allows you to set DEBUG to True for your staging site, and False for your production site.

I do something along ...

Announcing Django Crawler and django-test-utils

2008 November 10

Today I'm going to be releasing a new project, called django-test-utils. It's rather empty at the moment, but it does have one cool feature. That is my [Django Crawler](http://github.com/ericholscher/django-test-utils/tree/master/test_utils/management/commands/crawlurls.py ...

A blog post a day keeps the doctor away

2008 November 01

November blog posting month has a special moment in my Django history. It was this time last year that I really got serious into Django. With the help of James Bennett's and Marty Alchin's blog ...

Using pdb to debug management commands and unit tests (Debugging Django Series,Part 4)

2008 September 02

Screencast 4

Today's screencast is about pdb again. This time we are going to be debugging management commands, and unit tests for django. This is a little bit more powerful than the previous screencast which just introduced the basic debugging commands.

Setup

This screencast uses a couple of really ...

Using pdb, the Python Debugger (Django Debugging Series, Part 3)

2008 August 31

I had a couple of comments about my last post saying that I should be sending all of the screencasts to the aggregator because this is content and isn't spam. So I'm going to do that. Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Hope you're enjoying the series ...

Screencast 2: Logging in Django, for fun and profit

2008 August 29

This is the second screencast of a week long series.

So that I don't spam all of the Django Community Feed (Bad RSS handling has done that more than once, Sorry!) I'm only going to be posting this post and the last post summarizing all of the screencasts ...

Screencast: Debugging with the Django Error Page

2008 August 28

This is part 1 of a week long series of screencasts

Hey Everyone, I'm here to make a minor announcement. In the upcoming 7 days, I'm going to be releasing 5-7 screencasts on Django, mostly focused on debugging, and hopefully trying to throw in a couple of other ...