Here is a little hack I made to the auth.login_required decorator that checks to see if the user account has the is_active flag set as well as being logged in. Nothing earth shattering here but I find it useful. If you look at the original login_required...

edit: This example has since been added to the official Django Docs for pagination. Big thanks to Scot Hacker for taking the initiative to submit the doc patch and make this happen (IE I'm far to lazy to submit it on my own). So I pulled the latest...

Here is a decorator that I came up with to augment the already available login_required and permission_required decorators. This one takes a group name and makes sure the logged in user is a part of it. def group_required(group_name,...

So awhile back (when I switched to Vista which had built in windows media center) I started getting into streaming videos from my pc to my xbox over the network so I could watch them on my tv. I did some searching and found that you have to convert...

Have you ever wondered why you can't have manage.py sqlall output your create table statements as InnoDB tables for mysql? Well I have. I always go in and update the statements by hand to add that after the fact. So I did a bit of pokeing around and...