Posts for October, 2010
uWSGI and Django Secure Requests
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Django
on October 29, 2010
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A colleague and I ran into a frustrating situation this evening when transitioning a site from Apache and mod_wsgi to uWSGI. Django's request.is_secure() wasn't working correctly. After much Googling and shouting at the SSH console, we finally discovered the UWSGI_SCHEME uWSGI parameter. To fix the issue, we edited /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params (which ...
Continue readingPostgres 9 Streaming Replication and Django-Balancer
Over the past couple of weeks I've had the opportunity to dig in to Postgres 9's streaming replication. What I found was a relatively easy way to configure a system for basic replication with very impressive speed. Postgres's streaming replication is an enhancement to the log-shipping warm standby that was ...
Continue readingDjango Admin Customization Examples
I've worked on a couple of projects recently that required some customization of the Django admin. One of the things that I love about Django's built-in admin is that it is created with a very extensible class-based structure. Here are some of the ways I was able to customize the ...
Continue readingBrandon Konkle
I've been creating websites for over 10 years, and I've been using Django since early 2008. I focus on high quality, well-tested, maintainable code and reliable high-performance deployments. Web development is something that I am very excited about, and I love finding elegant and innovative ways to push web applications further.
