Preston Timmons prestontimmons

prestontimmons / testcase.py

Created October 24, 2011 22:19

Lazy man's Django testcase

	"""
	Decrease the verbosity of writing view tests.

	Old way:

	self.client.get(reverse("my-view"))
	self.client.post(reverse("my-view"), data={"key": "value"})
	self.client.login("username", "password")
	self.client.get(reverse("my-other-view"))
	self.client.logout()

prestontimmons / gist:1207189

Created September 9, 2011 20:08

Install ssh-copy-id on mac

	sudo curl "http://phildawson.co.uk/ssh-copy-id" -o /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id
	sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id

prestontimmons / gist:1198079

Created September 6, 2011 16:34

slugify model on save

	from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify as django_slugify


	class MyModel(models.Model):

	def save(args, *kwargs):
	# Build our slug from the name, keeping it short for
	# linkability, but still guarantee uniqueness
	if not self.pk and self.slug:
	self.slug = self.slugify(self.slug)

prestontimmons / redis-server

Created June 29, 2011 04:14 — forked from tessro/redis-server

A CentOS initscript for Redis

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# redis - this script starts and stops the redis-server daemon
	#
	# chkconfig: - 85 15
	# description: Redis is a persistent key-value database
	# processname: redis-server
	# config: /etc/redis/redis.conf
	# config: /etc/sysconfig/redis
	# pidfile: /var/run/redis.pid

prestontimmons / gist:952217

Created May 2, 2011 19:37

Sample mod_wsgi Django file

	"""
	WSGI application configuration.

	Read http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango to learn
	more about integrating with Django.
	"""

	import os
	import site
	import sys

prestontimmons / gist:945264

Created April 27, 2011 21:31

Saving an image to a Django model from a url

	try:
	contents = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
	except urllib2.HTTPError, exc:
	# handle exception
	pass

	mymodel.image.save(file_name, ContentFile(contents))

prestontimmons / gist:920546

Created April 14, 2011 21:05

Matching template variables in Django

	try:
	variable_name = re.search("as (\w+)", token.contents).group(1)
	except AttributeError:
	raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, \
	"%r tag had invalid arguments." % token.split_contents()[0]

prestontimmons / gist:885958

Created March 24, 2011 21:44

Posting data with curl

Post data to url:

curl -d "k1=v1&k2=v2" http://example.com/

Post multipart form data to url:

curl -F "photo=@test_image.jpg" -F "k1=v1" -F "k2=v2" http://example.com/

prestontimmons / setZeroTimeout.html

Created March 24, 2011 21:13 — forked from toastdriven/setZeroTimeout.html


	<!DOCTYPE HTML>
	<!-- zero-timeout.html, L. David Baron <[email protected]>, 2010-03-07, 2010-03-09 -->
	<!--

	Copyright (c) 2010, The Mozilla Foundation
	All rights reserved.

	Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
	modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are

prestontimmons / gist:855795

Created March 4, 2011 22:10

Carousel with javascript

	<!-- Carousel -->
	<div id="carousel" class="feature autorotate slidelinks group">

	<!-- Slides -->
	<div class="carousel-slides">
	<div class="slide">
	<a href="/bundles/greatest-need/"><img src="//www.gfamedia.org/images/bundles-slide/greatest-need.jpg" alt=""></a>
	</div>

	<div class="slide">