I was troubleshooting an issue a couple of weeks ago with some of our Django views taking too long to return a response. The issue was due to post_save and post_delete signals making a request to Solr to update the index with the 'commit' parameter set to 'true' (Haystack default). This basically tells Solr to do the indexing right away (hard commit) and it was taking a few seconds to finish.
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While most people probably find content on your site through Google, it might still be a good idea to just add a basic search functionality to it. You can control which fields to search, how your results are displayed, and your readers won't have to leave your site. You may also have content that is not yet public that you want to be able to search, such as unpublished articles or blog posts.
For this …
This is at least the second time this has happened to me so I figured I'd make a note here for future reference.
Basically I was running the Software Update and it complained that there is "Not enough free disk space":
The upgrade needs a total of 81.7 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 15.5 M of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of …
It had been over year since I last looked at DataTables, a jQuery table plugin for creating tables with advanced features. I used it for my Django app, GlucoseTracker, and it worked great. But one thing that was bothering me was it wasn't responsive. It was the only element in my app that wasn't responsive and looked horrible when viewing on a phone in portrait mode.
Over the weekend I decided to check …
A friend and I started working on this project a few weeks ago as we were talking about the holidays and how useful it would be to build an app to track prices of products on Amazon.com. We know Amazon is very competitive with their pricing and their prices for certain products could change many times a day to match competitors'. Having an app to send you alerts when a product reaches your desired price …