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Really easy SSH tunneling

2009 March 21

SSH Tunneling has become an invaluable tool that I probably use more than I should. I love tunneling, and use it all the time. This will be a quick tutorial on how to use the SOCKS proxy ability of SSH to allow you to tunnel your HTTP traffic through a ...

Django Aggregator v2 now has tagging, and you should too.

2008 November 22

I have been doing some more work on my Django Community Aggregator / Django People v2 project. A big feature that I want to incorporate is tagging. I want people to be able to sort data by tag, among other things. I think that this is a pretty killer feature.

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Practical Django Testing Examples: Views

2008 November 11

This is the fourth in a series of Django testing posts. Check out the others in my Testing series if you want to read more. Today is the start of a sub-series, which is practical examples. This series will be going through each of the different kinds of ...

Introduction to Python/Django tests: Fixtures

2008 November 05

In the first two posts of this series, we talked about how to get the basic infrastructure for your tests up and running. You should have a file with doc tests and one with unit tests. They should be linked into your django project with an `init.py ...

Introduction to Python/Django testing: Basic Unit Tests

2008 November 04

Last post we talked about how to set up and use doc tests inside of Django. Today, in the second post of the series, we'll be talking about how to use the other testing framework that comes with Python, unittest. unittest is a xUnit type of testing system (JUnit ...

Introduction to Python/Django testing: Basic Doctests

2008 November 02

This is the first in a series of blog posts and screencasts that will walk you through how to test your Django application. These posts will focus more on how to get things done in Django, but note that a lot of the content is applicable to pure python as ...

Setting up Django and mod_wsgi

2008 July 08

I was just convinced to setup mod_wsgi on my server instead of mod_python, and I'm going to write up how I did it. All of the documentation I found on the internet was really hard to follow, so I'm going to distill it here the best that I ...