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defrex / jquery.500frame.js

Created April 11, 2011 19:06

pop-up any 500s in an iframe using jQuery. Especially useful for Django errors.

	$(document).bind('ajaxError', function(e, jqXHR){
	if (jqXHR.status == 500){
	var erframe = document.createElement('iframe');
	$('body').append(erframe);
	$(erframe).css({
	'position': 'absolute',
	'top': '5%', 'left': '50%',
	'width': '90%', 'height': '90%',
	'marginLeft': '-45%'
	}).attr('id', 'errorframe');

defrex / pretty_request.py

Last active September 8, 2023 14:33

A simple function to print a Django request the way requests are meant to be printed.


	def pretty_request(request):
	headers = ''
	for header, value in request.META.items():
	if not header.startswith('HTTP'):
	continue
	header = '-'.join([h.capitalize() for h in header[5:].lower().split('_')])
	headers += '{}: {}\n'.format(header, value)

	return (

defrex / markup.py

Created August 9, 2013 15:23

`django.contrib.markup` is deprecated in Django 1.5. Here is a simple replacement for the markdown filter.

	import markdown as mkdn

	from django import template
	from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

	register = template.Library()


	@register.filter()
	def markdown(value):

defrex / parseUrl.js

Created February 22, 2014 20:48

	function parseUrl(url) {
	var urlParser = document.createElement('a');
	urlParser.href = url;

	return {
	hostname: urlParser.hostname,
	pathname: urlParser.pathname,
	search: urlParser.search,
	hash: urlParser.hash,
	port: urlParser.port,

defrex / gist:10008795

Created April 6, 2014 17:07

Keybase Proof

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I am defrex on github.
I am defrex (https://keybase.io/defrex) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 1486 B752 395C B552 C0DF 8604 D2BB 926C 932E D7E4

To claim this, I am signing this object:

defrex / storages.py

Created July 14, 2014 19:01


	from storages.backends.s3boto import S3BotoStorage


	class StaticS3BotoStorage(S3BotoStorage):
	location = 'static'


	class MediaS3BotoStorage(S3BotoStorage):
	location = 'media'

defrex / shell.py

Created September 30, 2014 19:14

Add ptpython support to Django's shell command

	from django.core.management.commands.shell import Command as ShellCommand


	class Command(ShellCommand):
	shells = ['ptpython', 'ipython', 'bpython']

	def ptpython(self):
	from prompt_toolkit.contrib.repl import embed
	embed(globals(), locals(), vi_mode=False, history_filename=None)

defrex / print_request.py

Created January 20, 2015 22:01

A couple utility functions for pretty printing Django request and response objects


	from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function

	import re
	import colorama


	header_regex = re.compile('^HTTP_')

	def print_header(key, value):

defrex / gifs.json

Created May 15, 2016 15:31

	{
	"title": "Spendwell JS Test",
	"posts": [
	{
	"title": "Power",
	"gif": "http://i.giphy.com/WmDxBPSHdEBtS.gif"
	},
	{
	"title": "Disgusting",
	"text": "http://i.giphy.com/xThuWgQbkshXOAlUHu.gif"

defrex / Repitition.test.ts

Created January 21, 2020 22:14

TypeORM Repitition Model: encodes an arbitrary repeating period

	import { subDays, subWeeks } from 'date-fns'
	import { Repitition } from './Repitition'

	describe('Repitition', () => {
	test('findByDate', async () => {
	const base = new Date()
	const twoWeeksAgo = subWeeks(base, 2)
	const twoWeeksOneDayAgo = subDays(twoWeeksAgo, 1)

	const weeklyStartingTwoWeeksAgo = await Repitition.create({

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