In preparation for an upgrade, I've been writing unit tests for a Django app with the help of a fantastic book -- Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey, there'll be a review coming up when I finish it.

I had some issues with the code to test …

The other day I created an "Ireland" tag on this blog and thought, hey, wouldn't it be cool to go back and tag all the posts I wrote about events in Ireland, so I have an easy way to see what's going on locally?

Of course retagging each post manually …

While trying to make the archive pages of this site more useful, I had a bit of trouble working with Django's annotation feature to give me the numbers I was looking for. I wanted to show on the index page how many posts were published in a given month. This …

Initially I followed the Django documentation and the mod_wsgi documentation to run Django on my local Apache server, but after installing mod_php5 the 2 modules began conflicting with each other when I wanted both to run peacefully in parallel.

PHP was to keep the default port 80 and Django was …

Hm... Starting to get the feeling this is the catch-all exception for Django, considering the wide range of scenarios in which people slam themselves against this error. (Although it's more frequent when using psycopg2, I hear.)

InternalError: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block

This time …