Change default editor in linux

In most situations… default editor in “clean” linux is nano. However… you can always change it.

svn: Can’t convert string from ‘UTF-8′ to native encoding

Yeah, I have this error message. “svn: Can’t convert string from ‘UTF-8′ to native encoding” when I want to do “svn checkout”. Why is that? Because of locales.

Ping search engines via RPC in python

It’s always good idea to update different search engines that your blog or a websites has updated. The easiest possible way to do this is by pinging them via XML-RPC.

Match regexp in python – I’m building logsplitter

Regular expressions are one of the most important things to learn, when we are talking about professional web development. Today I will present how regular expressions works in python. I will use my own script called logsplitter to present, how it works in practice.

Sitemap.xml with newses and static pages in django

It’s really easy to create simple sitemap.xml in django. You can follow the instructions from this site or just google it. However… it’s a bit more complicated when you want to create simple.xml file with newses and some static pages.

Change SITE_ID on the fly in django

I need dynamic SITE_ID in one of my websites (tspot), because of different domains and languages in it. I don’t want more threads, I just want to have different SITE_ID for different domains.

Forbidden access to ‘.svn/entries’ via nginx

You shouldn’t give an access to your ‘.svn’ directory. This flaw exposes all file names in your svn module and can also be used to download the source code of the scripts (PHP, JSP, etc…) hosted on the remote server.

Create first app using Adobe Air on Ubuntu

“Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.” That’s from Wikipedia. Now let create our first application using this technology.

Django internalization – translate.activate() instead of redirect

I already wrote something about django + internalization. Today I will add one more thing to this topic.

RSS/Atom feed in Django and parameters from URL

About Django + RSS I was writing some time ago. Today – one more example related to this topic. I will write how to use parameters from URL in feed class.