Looking for error in web pages can be very boring. I’ve tried some online tools but they seems too old, unsatisfying or premium only so I go to a 3 days programming marathon and I put online a brand new tool to do the job I need. Go to Spellcheck This! and paste the URL address of the page you want to check and get the page checked for Deutsch, US English, Español, Français and […]
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 connection. Let’s see how the code to call drush on command line changes. Prerequisites: paramiko on your app settings.py add: […]
Today I started one of the less motivating activities in Python 2.x: encoding. In Python 3 unicode will be everywhere, but as of the 2.6 version I’ve on one of the server I have to endure. Objective: get data from a UTF-8 encoded json and print a nice PDF. Tools: json, urllib2, fpdf, cgi What you need: pyfpdf: https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/downloads/list Download fpdf-1.7.hg.zip or more recent Unzip, enter the directory and python setup.py install locate fpdf cd /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fpdf (or the directory […]
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 job. I’m looking for a more basic solution, and I asked to Django-it Google group for a help. Here my […]
