A basic search box with Django

29 November 2009

This post explains how I made the simple search box for this site using Django.

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Bazaar version script

28 November 2009

I talk about my Bazaar version script, use it in any Python package that is version controlled using Bazaar, then the user of a package can easily see an automatically generated minor version number.

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Making a Django form field using aggregated values

18 November 2009

The Django admin list_filter function provides a nice way of searching by the contents of fields. How do we implement that in the public side of a web application?

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Countries in Django

17 November 2009

In this post I talk about the CountryField that I used in my Django application.

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This week - sheep are not going to destroy the world

19 October 2009

The latest installment in my series about what I have read on the Internet recently. We look at computing after applications, the problem of spam email, whether cows and sheep will end the world and whether Linux will save it.

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Three classic command line tips

17 October 2009

In this post we look at downloading a real player stream, checking your HTTP headers and coping with memory hogging Java programs.

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Mobile Wireless Questions and Answers

21 June 2009

Some interesting questions and answers from my local Linux Group, the responses were written by Linux wireless expert Quentin Wright.

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Visualising your favourite keywords in Twitter

18 June 2009

Having Twitter messages splat over your screen is great at home, at a party or club. Here are some cool sites that allow you to do that.

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Greatest Ever Free Books

28 May 2009

The web is full of free e-books. However are they any good? Read this post to find out.

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My Twitter tag clouds

28 May 2009

In this post I make some tag clouds from my Twitter account.

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Getting value for money for my council tax money

05 April 2009

Tax may be unavoidable, but lets try to get value for our money. Starting with the rubbish.

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Printing in black and white on Linux

02 April 2009

In this post, I talk about using the HP Deskjet D2560 on Linux, as well as how to print in black and white.

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What the Pirate Bay trial means for the future of entertainment

08 March 2009

In this post I talk about the end of the Pirate Bay trial, and what this means for the future of entertainment.

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Operating System and Browser statistics February 2009

01 March 2009

In this post, I show some pie charts showing operating system, browser and RSS usage for this site. With some interesting results.

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The Podcast 2 - Knock on the Door

27 February 2009

Our second podcast is about bug jamming in Ubuntu, and a variety of other subjects about Free/Open source. For more details, see the show notes.

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MP3 OGG

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Email with Mutt, IMAP and SSMTP

26 February 2009

In this post, I talk about how I set up the Mutt email reader, retrieving email with IMAP, and sending email using SSMTP.

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Desktop applications on Linux

24 February 2009

Which desktop application would you not like to see implemented again on Linux?

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The Podcast 1 - Under the Patio

22 February 2009

This new podcast is about Free Open source, especially what is going on in the English Midlands, but hopefully it will be interesting to you wherever you live. Read More for the show notes.

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The Pirate Bay Trial Begins

17 February 2009

The Pirate Bay is depending on your perspective, either an accessory to unauthorised distribution of copyrighted works, or a modern day library of Alexandria providing the largest catalog of human culture and media ever seen in the history of humanity.

However, this week it has hit the courts where that argument will be put to the test, so lets look at the issues.

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Processing your offline gmail in Python

03 February 2009

In this post, we look at the new offline feature of Google's webmail, and we use SQLite to make the email available in Python.

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Hello, my name is Zeth, I'll be your host here.

Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!

This site is your site too which means that you can contribute and get involved. You can leave comments using the facility provided. For me, the comments and discussions are by far the best part of the site. So please do have your say!

Latest Discussions

Zeth

November 29, 2009
Hi Jordan, yes that URL is gone now. I have a new contact form on this site.
Python CGI contact forms

Jordan

November 29, 2009
Zeth attention! Your form, http://zeth.me.uk/contact/, is not working The explorer says connecting ..but nothing happens Sorry for my poor English: I am Spanish Regards
Python CGI contact forms

Jordan

November 26, 2009
Sorry: tell me , not tellme (I'm spaniard) And http://zeth.me.uk/contact/ don't work
You got the touch, you got the power

David Jones

November 25, 2009
Your mad skillz are too l33t! for me. I specifically switched to Google Reader so that I could show people what blogs I read. But I couldn't work out how ...
How to find the fashionable blogs quickly

Brian R. Hickey

November 20, 2009
Symantec picked it up too.
How to bring down Internet Explorer with six words

Zeth

November 17, 2009
Thanks djm, I am the moose here. Christian, assuming one actually does Internationalise the countries, it should still work I guess, as the gettext stuff will happen before the list ...
Countries in Django

Phillip Temple

November 17, 2009
Good start, but: a) wouldn't I want None back rather than 'ZZ'? b) why not add a 'shortcut' boolean, then prepend flagged fields (plus usual '-----' separator) to the actual ...
Countries in Django

djm

November 17, 2009
Am I being a moose or did you mean: from whatever.countries import CountryField instead of from whatever.countries import CharField ? Good post though, cheers.
Countries in Django

Christian Joergensen

November 17, 2009
Wouldn't the ordering get messed up after i18n?
Countries in Django

Steve - Electronic Cigarettes Fan

November 17, 2009
Very well done. Is your blog just you writing? Nicely done, Steven.
Blogger vs Wordpress

vetetix

November 15, 2009
Sorry to bother you nearly two years after you wrote this blog article, but I can't manage to find how to modify an existing field. I am trying to change ...
Three Useful Python Bindings - ClamAV, Apt and Evolution

Manju

November 4, 2009
I am transferring some files using psftp to other device's FAT partition. But the filestamp of the file being transferred is modified to that of FAT device, after the transfer. ...
PuTTY Series: Using PSFTP

iki

November 2, 2009
or simpler: socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]
How to find out your IP address in Python

iki

November 2, 2009
local_ip = set([ i[4][0] for i in socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), None) if i[0] == 2 ])
How to find out your IP address in Python

Fred

November 2, 2009
testing rst ------------- - point 1
An Introduction to ReStructuredText

Ano

October 27, 2009
"You simply found the license of the StumbleUpon Toolbar for Internet Explorer." That's possible. I've got some more interesting information to add. Firstly, go to this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138 - this ...
Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?

Ken

October 21, 2009
Stumbled in here at lunch. This is the best find of the week. Thanks.
Three classic command line tips

Jim

October 19, 2009
Thanks for the rtsp:// post - that's something that has been bugging me for a while!
Three classic command line tips

Zeth

October 18, 2009
Thanks for the comments guys. Great to see the all the gang are still here!
Three classic command line tips

Bubba

October 18, 2009
Is there any way psftp can return the true transfer rates oberved during the actual transfer?
PuTTY Series: Using PSFTP