Comment by Chase Seibert on Java: Looking for hack to deal with Windows file...
I ended up prototyping my own java.io.File by downloading the latest version from the JDK and branching it. I'm working on an AoP solution that would be more maintainable.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Is there a jQuery Click method?
It also does not populate HTTP Referrer.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Can I call jQuery's click() to follow an link if...
window.location works, but not not post HTTP Referrer, and breaks the back button.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Creating a unique key based on file content in...
In this case, the strength of the hashing function is immaterial. MD5 will absolutely prevent duplicates to a virtual mathematical certainty.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Fulltext search on many tables
An index isn't your database table. It's a separate denormalized copy just for fast searching.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Validate/clean a FileField on a non-model form in...
FYI - I do see the InMemoryUploadFile object in request.FILES.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Why are form field __init__ methods being called...
You are correct, but I'm still trying to understand why importing MyForm is calling the ModelChoiceField() constructor before I've actually instantiated a MyForm object. See my edit.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Why are form field __init__ methods being called...
I've been using Python for a couple of years, but this still surprised me. Probably because that would not happen in Java.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Facebook.ui method: 'apprequests' hangs only on...
Same issue as poster. Moving to port 80 fixed it for me.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Using pg_restore on dump file
That's why I suggested django smuggler, it gives you the dump file right in the browser as a file download.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Tell git to treat a set of files as "disposable"
It's just a development database, and just local development sessions.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on How to replicate tee behavior in Python when...
This worked for me, though I found stdout, stderr = proc.communicate() easier to use.
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on To have no LaTeX margins for pictures
\newgeometry{margin=0in} works for me
View ArticleComment by Chase Seibert on Django custom management commands:...
Fixed the issue for me.
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Answer by Chase Seibert for Is it a good practice to make an index on every...
I think the best practice here is to put a few indexes in initially, as best-guesses for what indexes will be needed. But after that, you want to actually measure which queries are slow and index...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for Is creating elements in javascript at runtime...
Inserting DOM elements into an already rendered page is much slower than rendering those same elements from a page refresh. How much slower depends on how you do the insertions. It's also largely...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for Jquery attr src removes one string from src but...
The following works for me. What's different about your code?<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script><img src="foobar"><a href="#"...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for os.path python module not working in heroku
Something like the following worked for me on similar Heroku/MEDIA_ROOT issue.TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ('django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader','django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',)BASE_PATH...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for Persisting session variables across login
I actually think your initial design made sense. If you want to save some session variables across the login/logout boundary, you can do something like this.from functools import wrapsclass...
View ArticleDjango-nose --with-profile getting no results ("0 function calls")
I'm trying to diagnose some slow running unit tests, but I'm not having any luck getting the profiler working with django-nose. I came up with a repo case on a brand new Django project.django-admin.py...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for How to form a string from 2 values
Here is a way to combine two values, and print them out.string_value = 'BOF'float_value = 0.0print "%s:%s" % (string_value[-1], float_value)>>F:0.0
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Answer by Chase Seibert for Why is my input field uneditable?
What you want to do is install Firebug, and examine the DOM element in that. It will show you any customized CSS properties, and you can check/uncheck them one by one. You will likely find the one...
View ArticlePython raw_input() replacement that uses a configurable text editor
I'm trying to implement a replacement for raw_input() that would use a configurable text editor like vim as the interface to to the user.The ideal workflow would be like this:Your python script is...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for Per-request cache in Django?
Years later, a super hack to cache SELECT statements inside a single Django request. You need to execute the patch() method from early on in your request scope, like in a piece of middleware.from...
View ArticleMixing implicit and explicit JOINs
I am having a problem with Hibernate generating invalid SQL. Specifically, mixing and matching implicit and explicit joins. This seems to be an open bug.However, I'm not sure why this is invalid SQL. I...
View ArticleJava REST client without schema
GoalJava client for Yahoo's HotJobs Resumé Search REST API. BackgroundI'm used to writing web-service clients for SOAP APIs, where wsimport generates proxy stubs and you're off and running. But this is...
View ArticleHow do you use Django URL namespaces?
I'm trying to get the hang of Django URL namespaces. But I can't find any examples or documentation.Here is what I have tried.urls.py:from django.conf.urls.defaults import *urlpatterns = patterns('',...
View ArticleConfigure Django to find all doctests in all modules?
If I run the following command:>python manage.py testDjango looks at tests.py in my application, and runs any doctests or unit tests in that file. It also looks at the __ test __ dictionary for...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for How are anonymous inner classes used in Java?
I use them sometimes as a syntax hack for Map instantiation:Map map = new HashMap() {{ put("key", "value");}};vsMap map = new HashMap();map.put("key", "value");It saves some redundancy when doing a lot...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for is distinct an expensive query in django?
This is not just a Django issue; DISTINCT is slow on most SQL implementations because it's a relatively hard operation. Here is a good discussion of why it's slow in Postgres specifically.One way to...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for Local file access with JavaScript
If the user selects a file via <input type="file">, you can read and process that file using the File API.Reading or writing arbitrary files is not allowed by design. It's a violation of the...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for For Django models, is there a shortcut for seeing...
An exists() method in the QuerySet API is available since Django 1.2.
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for RegEx for Javascript to allow only alphanumeric
Use the word character class. The following is equivalent to a ^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$:^\w+$Explanation:^ start of string\w any word character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _).$ end of stringUse /[^\w]|_/g if you don't want...
View ArticleConvert iCal to HTML or plaintext in Java
I'm looking for a Java API to convert ICS (aka iCal) attachments to nicely formatted HTML or plaintext for display purposes. Ideally, it would be able to handle:Converting dates to a specified...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for Using ALTER to drop a column if it exists in MySQL
There is no language level support for this in MySQL. Here is a work-around involving MySQL information_schema meta-data in 5.0+, but it won't address your issue in 4.0.18.drop procedure if exists...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for java: Rpc/encoded wsdls are not supported in...
RPC/encoded is a vestige from before SOAP objects were defined with XML Schema. It's not widely supported anymore. You will need to generate the stubs using Apache Axis 1.0, which is from the same...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for How do I get Pyflakes to ignore a statement?
Here is a monkey patch for pyflakes that adds a # bypass_pyflakes comment option.bypass_pyflakes.py#!/usr/bin/env pythonfrom pyflakes.scripts import pyflakesfrom pyflakes.checker import Checkerdef...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for Help with div - make div fit the remaining width
<div class="a"><div class="b"><a href="#">click here to be amazed!</a></div><div class="c">this is some awesome text</div></div><STYLE>.b,.c...
View ArticleLightweight Java Object cache API [closed]
QuestionI'm looking for a Java in-memory object caching API. Any recommendations? What solutions have you used in the past?CurrentRight now, I'm just using a Map:Map cache = new HashMap<String,...
View ArticlePer-request cache in Django?
I would like to implement a decorator that provides per-request caching to any method, not just views. Here is an example use case.I have a custom tag that determines if a record in a long list of...
View ArticleVimrc using a variable inside a cmap
I'm writing a piece of vimscript to manage sessions. I would like to let the user configure which directory they would like the sessions to be saved in, ie:let g:sessions_dir = "~/.vim/sessions"I have...
View ArticleAnswer by Chase Seibert for How do I copy to the clipboard in JavaScript?
The other methods will copy plain text to the clipboard. To copy HTML (i.e., you can paste results into a WYSIWYG editor), you can do the following in Internet Explorer only. This is is fundamentally...
View ArticleJava phone number format API
I have a database with millions of phone numbers with free-for-all formatting. Ie, the UI does not enforce any constraints and the users are typing in whatever they want.What I'm looking for is a Java...
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