Today I've been researching on Linux and Debian booting. There is an excellent article from IBM, which explains the procedure, and the involved parts: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxboot/ Basically: - BIOS checks CMOS and...
I had to compare two XML strings for some unit tests, and if you want to do it without considering the indentation, or the newlines, it is a little bit tricky.I thought that parsing the original xml and returning it again (using minidom), I'd got...
Some time ago I purchased a Brother multifunctional priner/scanner/fax, the MFC-235C.Today, after reinstalling my laptop, I had to install it again, and it has been as easy as the first. Specially because Brother has GNU (aka Linux) support,...
Everything is changing on Django those days, and many people contacted me because StdImage stopped working with trunk.Basically all major changes (except GeoDjango) affected it, such as change from newforms to forms, signal refactoring, and file...
Few days ago a new search engine was published, and many media covered the it. I supposed for that, that it should be something important, but I think that in few days it'll only be important for its creators. Why I think that? Well, here you...
Some time ago, I wrote a post in this blog about the essential Firefox extensions for developers. After some time, that post is out of date, so I changed some of those extensions, and started using some new. Here is the updated list:Firebug:...
In this article you'll find some tips, that could be useful for avoiding problems or extra work when translating your Django application.1. Setting up the environmentDoing some trivial changes to your project structure, can avoid you of...
Here you have what, from my point of view, is the status of django i18n. Comments will be very welcome, specially from people from countries with other i18n needs than mine (based on the idea that Django i18n is perfect for people in the US, here...
Some days ago, after the merge of qs-rf to trunk, model field i18n was in trouble, so the principal package for this approach (django-multilingual) stopped working for the latest version of trunk.This weekend we had a TransDb sprint, to try to...
I'm pleased to announce a new project, django-stdimage, that provides a new image field with many improvements respect to Django's core ImageField.Features of StdImageField:- Saved files have standardized names (using field name and object id)...