inserting {% csrf_token %} in django templates

Here's a quick script to append {% csrf_token %} at the end of the opening <form> tag across your html files:

$ grep -REli --include="*.html" "<form.+method[[:space:]]?=[[:space:]]?['\"]?post['\"]?" . \
| xargs sed -i -re "s|(<form.+method[^=]*=\W?post[^>]+>)|\1{% csrf_token %}|i"

For git users, you can use git-grep instead of ...

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a skeletal controller for codeigniter

Some time back, I wrote a library-helper for CodeIgniter that brings Django/Jinja template inheritance to CI views. There are a couple of implementations out there, but I decided to write my own as an exercise mostly, but also to keep closer to the original syntax and style.

It works ...

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expiring '/1' pages in bloggart

Recently, I suggested a fix for ListingContentGenerators - instead of setting, say, /tag/foo/1, set only /tag/foo/. I do have some doubts if this should be considered a 'fix'; from the existing code base, it looks like having a /tag/foo/1 was pretty much intentional.

Anyway, while ...

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fixed archive feature

As some of you sharp-eyed readers have noticed - yes, the year-month archive pages were broken. The May one showed June entries, and the June one showed May ones.

Thanks to Nick Johnson for pointing this out.

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timezone support in bloggart

I wanted to localize this blog to my timezone - after all, I live here, and not in a UTC region.

But this needed some work. Most GAE python developers (no pun intended) would have noticed the lack of timezone-awareness for datetime properties.

To add timezone-awareness in bloggart, I had to ...

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squelching port numbers in nginx redirects

I'm running a nginx installation on webfaction, and it's long bothered me that URL rewrites/redirects in nginx included the port number in the resulting host.

For example, if you had this piece of config

server {
	listen	1001;
	server_name	foo.com;

	location = / {
		rewrite ^.*$ /under_construction redirect;
	}
}

a hit on ...

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hide admin page requests from Analytics

This was cute. I was wondering why Analytics was reporting so many page views for my lowly blog - turns out bloggart was including the Analytics JS for /admin/ pages too.

Check out the fix here.

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commit summary shows non-abbreviated SHA-1s

Recently, I noticed that after resolving merge conflicts, git commit showed the full SHA-1.

For example, in my working tree for rctay-blog:

$ git log -1 # whereami?
f1a0068 (Merge branch 'rc/fix-atom' into rc/master, Tue May 25 13:29:30 2010 +0800, Tay Ray Chuan)
$ git merge rc/atom-last-modified
Auto-merging ...

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a 2-day bloggart hackathon

Over the past 2 days, I've been adding a few topics branches/features to my bloggart fork.

• rc/atom-last-modified: use the regeneration-time date in the <updated> field. This is mostly useful for developers hacking the atom.xml template.
• rc/feedburner: integration for Feedburner. Requests to /feeds/atom.xml are ...

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satchmo 0.9.1 released

It's been a long time coming - almost 7 months since the previous release. On the surface, it's marked as a minor release, but it's packed with many features, as well as several model-backward incompatibilities.

For a more detailed list of notable changes, check out Chris' announcement.

(Interestingly ...

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