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Front-end structure of large scale Django project
Few days ago, I started to work in new company. Before me, all front-end and backend code was written by one man (oh my...).
As you know, Django app contains two main directories for front-end: ...
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Django web app with websockets
I want to make a web service using Django, but that also has websocket functionality. Having done a bit of reading, this is the tech stack that I'm looking at:
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How can I convince my client that the task was complex and the time I took is fair?
I am the single programmer working on a website handling both frontend and backend. Recently in my task list I have to provide a social news feed (activities among friends) which should summarize ...
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Extending user registration in Django site that uses both site admin tables and my own module?
I'm writing a Django site that registers a particular type of user and this is done by the resources that come with the framework, the site administration.
The issue: I'd like to create a new model ...
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Using a web framework as python GUI
If I built some useful piece of python code to e.g. scrape a website or to calculate something big, at some point I might want to add a GUI to my project. For this I could use Tk, Qt, Pygame or any ...
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Database design/relationship for threading messages
What's the database design or business logic for creating an app for messaging between users?
I am having difficulties with choosing how to approach the relationship between each Conversation of User ...
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What could be the Model Layer when consuming Web-Services and no Database in Django?
I'm using Django as an application framework and it only needs to consume web services (no need to have traditional Django Models and the related ORM).
In this case, since Django is a variant on the ...
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REST API at backend and MVC Javascript framework at client side
I am building an online social network. I have finished writing RESTful API service using Django. This will return only JSON response (No HTML will be generated from server side) so that this JSON ...
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Merge two different API calls into One
I have two different apps in my django project. One is "comment" and an other one is "files". A comment might save some file attached to it.
The current way of creating a comment with attachments is ...
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Django REST + Backbone/Ember/Angular Implementation Method
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10941249/separate-rest-json-api-server-and-client
In light of this post, I wanted to ask questions regarding Django and specifically the implementation methods of ...
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Architecture design for a web application that runs SSH connections to remote servers
This is a followup to my question here.
I have to make a web GUI for a library that manages remote clusters via SSH.
The main point is that this library spawns threads and subprocesses (Popen) ...
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Multiple sites with the same codebase in Python
I am trying to run a large amount of sites which share about 90% of their code. They are simply designed to query an API and return the results. They will have a common userbase / database but will be ...
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Best practices when dealing with lots of empty table columns?
I have a schema that allows for multiple post types in my Django project (kinda like Tumblr). Users can make Posts of different types. One of those types is a photo, which I'll want the EXIF data for. ...
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Web app outgrowing current framework
I have quite a bit of experience with using Django for websites and so when I started a new project I naturally chose to use Django for it. Everything went well for a time but now the application is ...
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Should model / table names be as generic as possible?
When naming a model, should the name be as generic as possible-- even if that won't be the name displayed to users?
For example let's imagine a Django model for liking another user's posts.
Does it ...
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Do I need a database to implement AJAX functionality for my app?
I am new to the construction and design of a web app so I'd like some advice please (Django is my framework). I'm trying to code up a "how-to" website instructing users the step-by-step process for ...
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How my website should use its own API?
Im building small web-service which will provide my users with data through API.
Also, some data will be available right on my website.
The question is about how to use my own API? Should my website ...
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How to create different paths for users to take through the pages in my site?
I have a website where users are directed to go through a sequence of pages to perform a sequence of work tasks (transcribe a paragraph, answer a survey, interact with another user, etc). For short, ...
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One to Many Relationship Django
let say I want my User model to have only one location and my Post model to have many location. How Do I design the model? This is what I have in mind so far. Is this going to work? Do I need to ...
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Python, magic and objects that add attributes to its owner
Let me start with a disclaimer: I'm not the best programmer out there. I do however study I.T. and learnt a bit of Java and C.
I'm getting stuck into Python and Django + Mongoengine, I'm not going to ...
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Notify players every x seconds in a multiplayer game
I'm working on a realtime multiplayer game using Django and gevent-socketio, I'm facing some issues:
I need to send an update of the game state to connected players every X seconds (~4 seconds), so ...
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How to get a Web Application to communicate between users
I am developing a multipalyer web Application for Anti-Chess. It would be hosted on Google App Engine.
I have a few questions:
How do I get two different users who have opened the webapp on their ...
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Unit testing in Django
I'm really struggling to write effective unit tests for a large Django project. I have reasonably good test coverage, but I've come to realize that the tests I've been writing are definitely ...
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Does it violate the DRY principle to use an MVC server-side framework and a client-side MVC framework
When using a MVC pattern for server side code (in my case django), the model definition is defined once in the model component. When using a client side MVC based library(in my case backbone) the ...
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How to dynamically add new posts once they are created
I am trying to design an application where users can make posts with Django on the backend. Right now I have to refresh the page with JavaScript every 20 or 30 seconds to check for new posts that ...
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git: having separate folder for development, why?
until now I was using dropbox as my main vcs (it is not, but for a single dev does the job pretty decent).
However I decided to give git a go and see if it fits my needs. Today I was reading this ...
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Handling table name collisions in Django
Django creates a table name by joining the app label with the model name. A project can have many apps. If two have the same label, how can both be used in the same database?
I'm currently using very ...
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Restrict access to backend
This might be one of those "not answerable" or "just opinions"-questions but I thought I'd give it a shot.
I'm developing an app with health care information with a friend who's a doctor. The basics ...
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What are your techniques for storing numpy structures in django database fields and how do you serialize them for http?
I want to publish a small web project that is supposed to contain some of my research results to present it to the scientific community. All my analysis I ran so far have been written in python ...
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Where can I find out about basic python usage, cli, editor and testing? [closed]
I'm coming from Ruby / Ruby on Rails to Python.
Where can I find or find resources about:
The command prompt, what is python's version of 'irb'
info and recommendations on editors, plugins and IDE's
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Execute code every hour
I need to create a web service that executes every hour. It will be used to review data in a database and add alerts to a table in the same database if certain conditions are met/not met. What we ...
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Which web framework to use under Backbonejs?
For a previous project, I was using Backbonejs alongside Django, but I found out that I didn't use many features from Django. So, I am looking for a lighter framework to use underneath a Backbonejs ...
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Should we have a database independent SQL like query language in Django?
Note :
I know we have Django ORM already that keeps things database independent and converts to the database specific SQL queries.
Once things starts getting complicated it is preferred to write raw ...
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Is it worth converting a Django project to Rails?
I have a project I shelved a while back- it was essentially a working web app built in django but I stopped working on it to work on something else.
I plan on starting it up again in my spare time, ...
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Django application strategy
I have been working a while on a Django project which has been growing a bit lately. I have been think a bit about what strategy to use to make it easier to handle. One thing I would like to get some ...
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Should one generally develop a client library for REST services to help prevent API breakages?
We have a project where UI code will be developed by the same team but in a different language (Python/Django) from the services layer (REST/Java). The code for each layer exits in different code ...
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Keeping “historical” migrations in Django-south
After a system has gone through many migrations, and evolved enough for a second version, does it make sense to keep the old migrations around? I mean, old versions will use them to upgrade to the new ...
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Moving from PHP to Python - framework considerations
As a long time PHP developer, I am now starting to explore the Python world.
I have narrowed the choice of framework down to Django and Pyramid, probably no big surprise there. I have played a bit ...
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Building a template engine - starting point
We're building a Django-based project with a template/generator component. This component will be separate from the project as such and can be Django/Python, Node, Java or whatever works. The idea is ...
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Parameterized Django models
In principle, a single Django application can be reused in two or more projects, providing functionality relevent to both. That implies that the same database structure (tables and relations) will be ...
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How do you map members and their responsibilities to an organization? [closed]
I'm working on a Django project that tracks arts-related activities, and I'm stuck on the human-resources part of things.
(code below) I have a class Ensemble that subclasses Organization. ...
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How to develop front end (UI) for my Django website
I am learning Django and new to web development. Please excuse me if you find this question too dumb.
So, I am creating a Facebook application using Django which I would like to host in Google App ...
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How would I do a “Server over capacity” message with Django?
This probably isnt' a Django specific question, but I'm wondering how those "Server over capacity" messages are displayed.
Some examples:
Twitter's fail whale
Tumblr's Over capacity slash page
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What and how to unit test a django web application?
I am writing unit tests for a web frontend implemented in Django.
I have written unit tests that check that all views return the correct status code (200, 302 etc) so that template errors (which give ...
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Django development best practices
I have spent some time studying Django and I've done some applications. But I really don't know what is the best approach while developing an application, I mean, there are several options: Make all ...
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How does key-based caching work?
I recently read an article on the 37Signals blog and I'm left wondering how it is that they get the cache key.
It's all well and good having a cache key that includes the object's timestamp (this ...
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Starting with Ruby on Rails? I see a lot of criticism everywhere. Is it okay to start with Rails now in 2012? [closed]
I have worked on C before and have never tried my hands on any web application creating framework. After some convincing from one of my friends I thought of giving Rails a go. Before starting to work ...
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How can I sell my boss on Python+Django instead of PHP+a different framework? [closed]
My boss has tasked me with a re-write of our intranet website. The existing system is very old PHP that doesn't use a framework. My preference is strongly to do the rewrite in Python and Django but my ...
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Why should I not always pass a Django request context in a view?
According to the relevant Django documentation, a request context offers more than a normal context in that it merges request data into the context.
It is hence necessary for views that perform form ...
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Why does email sent from my site end up in SPAM folders? [closed]
I am developing a course registration website in Django. New users must confirm their email address by clicking on a link emailed to them.
Unfortunately, this message is consistently ending up in ...
