How do you usually start the coding session after booting your machine? I mostly used console with Bash, Vim, MC,... so the typical routine was firing up every single tab then typing on it. Now, I think it's time to leverage the power of laziness. Read more

I recently have a request to fix an issue related to Safari browser on iOS, and the problem is I don't have any Xcode or MacOS nearby in order to easy the investigation process. Then I found JSConsole, which helped me complete the task with a surprise of its simplicity. Read more

There are already number of solutions for scraping online web data using Python, or you can just simply write a Python script doing the work. I started develop and maintain django-scraper originated from my own demand, and still keeping it improved and better serves diversity of requirements. In brief, given a starting page, it can crawl other linked sources then scrape/extract almost any data present in those pages (including text, HTML, images, or other media files). Operation output is represented in JSON and with complex results with other filed downloaded, all can be placed inside a Zip file. Read more

Sometimes I feel a little bored when having to add lot of models into admin section, especially during the development. Therefore, I made django-quickadmin with hope it will ease that registering process. Read more

Using Django Shell with IPython console is great. However, we would have more advantages when trying through web interface of IPython Notebook. Read more

Each time having a push or pull request to your repository, it is great when having the product built, tested, and received final report automatically. Linking your Github repo to Travis CI, Coveralls.io greatly helps you doing that time-consuming and tedious work. Read more

My experience on leveraging shortcuts or snippets in developing with Django projects, especially when coding in Vim. Read more

Some small hints/notes about deleting media files, referenced object, and sorl-thumbnail Read more

A really good introduction and basic guideline about Linux pipelining. Read more

How I started with Vagrant to build sample environment for VOER Platform Read more

Standard (or stock) Oscar only provides 6 types of content blocks: Raw HTML, Image, Single Product, Automatic Product List, Hand Picked Product List, Multi Image. Those, in most case, well afford all normal needs of page content creation. But if you need a new special one, with unique styling, you should create a new content block type. Read more

What are comprehensions, generators, decorators, descriptors? Read more