Yup, that's right, another Django project template!
I know there's a ton of these projects already on GitHub, but as I was in the process of rewriting an old Django project last week, I found out that Django 1.8 just came out. I figured this is a good opportunity to create another one I could use for future projects as I already have a few small ones in mind. Django 1.8 is also an …
I had been using Shelfari for a few years to keep track of books I've read and plan to read. I really liked the website's interface and they had this nice widget that lets you display a bookshelf of your reading list on your blog. But when I forced SSL on my blog, it stopped working. The widget doesn't work over https.
I then looked for other widgets and tried Amazon's widget. But their widget …
A 2-hour bus ride from Medellin is the small town of Guatape, a popular weekend destination for people living in Medellin. I decided to check it out last Sunday with a friend I met at a language exchange event.
Buses leave from Medellin every hour. We met up at the Poblado metro station and took it to the Caribe stop, which is connected to the Terminal del Norte where the buses to Guatape depart from. …
I was troubleshooting an issue for a client the other day where certain Solr requests were returning a 400 (Bad Request) error response. There were actually 2 separate issues:
1. The Tomcat servlet and/or the web server in front of it (in this case an HA Proxy server) can't process the request because it's too big.
2. The Solr query parameter contains too many boolean clauses (the error actually says 'too many boolean clauses').
This is more a "note to self" in case I need to do this again.
We use hub at work mainly to convert GitHub issues to pull requests. For Mac users, you can install it by simply typing in brew install hub. But for Linux users, the installation is a little bit more complicated.
Below is the easy way to do it:
sudo apt-get install ruby sudo curl https://hub.github.com/standalone -Lo /usr/bin/hub sudo chmod 755 …