Using Django, and easy_thumbnails coupled with Pillow specifically I’m stumbled upon this error in PIL.ImageFile on PIL/_binary.py: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found This python error was so frequent I’ve done some research, coming up with nothing. I’ve checked current Pillow version with: Getting: Pillow==3.0.0 Then I’ve upgraded the Pillow package …
I’ve started using Drupal on 2007. For about 9 years I visits drupal.org almost on daily basis, I released a module, I suggested some patches, participated to local events and so on. I’ve started working on Drupal with Drupal 5 and I ended on Drupal 7 with a long time on Drupal 6. In the …
How to speed up the time to the first byte and what are the causes of a long TTFB? Main causes are network and server-side and I will focus on server-side causes. I’m not covering any CMS here but you can try to apply some of these techniques starting from how to interpret the browser …
How to choose the right IDE for Windows and how to find and install Python libraries? Six fundamental resources to program with Python on Windows.
In a recent article I explain the motivations for an upgrade from a no longer maintained Drupal 6 installation to Django 1.8. I will now cover more in detail the migration techniques adopted in the upgrade and I’ll deepen the models and the relationships. Structure If you’re a drupaler, you’re familiar with the node/NID/edit and the node/add/TYPE …
I maintain a news website written in Drupal since 2007. It is a Drupal 6, before was a 5. I made many Drupal 7 installations in these years and I went to three Drupal local conventions. This is a guide on how to abandon Drupal if you already knows some basics of Django and Python. Drupal on LAMP: …
Some months ago I talked about how to achieve a unified login from Django to Drupal using drush. The basic assumption was that both Drupal and Django are on the same server. What if the two components are on different servers? Paramiko is a SSH2 protocol library aimed to provide simple classes to make SSH …
I’m working on a project that has two hearts: a Django for a custom CRM with thousands of imported users, and Drupal, where those users should login. This howto apply on: Drupal 7.x (slave) Django 1.5 (master) There are many single/centralized sign-on solutions around, like OpenID, OAuth CAS and external services like SecurePass to do the …
I had a bad morning trying to repair my Cygwin installation from a virtualenv mess. It’s time to get a Debian and install it on a Virtualbox for my new django project! Windows: host Debian: guest Choosing the distro: what I want Python 2.6 Django 1.4 Apache + Mysql I’m a Debian fan from years …
