My internship: Global search @ ugent.be Lagging a bit behind, I’m going to describe my internship. In a nutshell, my internship is about search, a whole lot of search. Since the portal site of the university at Ghent (http://www.ugent.be) is moving to and running Plone as its main CMS and a whole lot of data [...]

So, you’re here on some quest to solve an issue where you do any amount of insert queries through MySQLdb but it doesn’t appear in the database? Well, I had exactly that issue. Took me ages to figure out why after moving an app to another server (with by design the same database, except for [...]

So, as the title says, we’re going to install trac on apache using mod_fastcgi. Now, before we get off, some explanation on why I write this: As it is, I tried to follow the documentation on the official trac website. But it was unclear, and made me very confused. In the end, someone had to [...]

Today I was configuring apache(2) under mod_fastcgi to get my django project working on it. It was requested since the testing would go on a similar-to-deployment method. So, I followed the guides at djangoproject but, as it seemed, I had some issues. Some were my own problem, some were not. After fixing them, I decided [...]

With the past project, I’ve been using django all the way. Given the requirements for that project, I judged that we were going to be needing a lot of AJAX, and I immediatelly started looking around for ways to do this. Luckily, it was found pretty quickly. The is_ajax method Conveniently enough: django provides a [...]

While on my quest for a proper framework, which in the end I would like to use all the time, I stumbled upon django. “Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” This is how they describe the project. And quite correctly that is. While trying to figure [...]

In light of the recent python 3000 post I made here, I have been looking for some python-related stuff. In my search for a good IDE, i stumbled upon the wingware ide, proclaimed to be the best. And I agree! The wingware ide has already helped me understand some python more, and thanks to it’s [...]