We just finished migrating the database for our Django 1.6 app from MySQL to PostgreSQL. If you have a clean environment this process is as simple as running syncdb and/or migrate to create the tables, truncating the data in those tables, and running the dumpdata and loaddata management commands.

Here are the steps to do this:

Step 1: Create an empty database in your PostgreSQL instance

CREATE DATABASE dbname OWNER rolename;

Step 2: Create a …

I've finally gotten around redesigning my blog and making it more mobile friendly. This is the third redesign for this blog since I started it back in January 2008.

I decided to completely redo it this time, moving away from the WordPress/PHP/MySQL stack to Django/Python/PostgreSQL. Feels much cleaner and runs a lot faster.

Since I just wanted something simple, I wrote the backend myself instead of relying on existing Django apps out there such as …

I've been working quite a bit with Docker these last few weeks and one thing that I found really annoying was all these unused containers and images taking up precious disk space.

I wish Docker has a 'docker clean' command that would delete stopped containers and untagged images. Perhaps sometime in the near future as the project is very active. But for the time being, these commands should do the job.

Kill all running containers …

I just realized today that Ubuntu has a command called pyclean already installed by default that will recursively delete all .pyc and .pyo files.

For example, to recursively delete .pyc and .pyo files from the current working directory, you can do:

pyclean .

If you’re not on Ubuntu, you can run this command instead:

find . -name “*.pyc” -delete

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I'm currently working on a simple blog app in Django and noticed that my images are not getting resized by default when using Bootstrap 3.

To change this behavior, simply change the img tag in bootstrap.css to this:

img {
  display: inline-block;
  height: auto !important;
  max-width: 100%;
  border: 0;
}

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