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Mercurial GUI Client on Ubuntu

April 15th, 2010

There are a lot of options for a Mercurial GUI client on Ubuntu but I preferred to use TortoiseHg so that I could use it with Nautilus – Ubuntu’s file manager.

TortoiseHg however is not in the Ubuntu Karmic Koala repositories.  Another challenge is that TortoiseHg 1.0.1 requires Mercurial 1.5 but Ubuntu Karmic only has Mercurial 1.3 on the repositories.  Of course I want the newer versions. :)

Here are the steps I did to install TortoiseHg, my preferred Mercurial GUI client on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10:
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Fix for JPEG upload problem in Django in virtualenv

December 2nd, 2009

I have been busy modifying Django‘s models for a project to include a field for uploading an image and was testing the model using Django’s Admin interface when I suddenly got this error:

Upload a valid image. The file you uploaded was either not an image or a corrupted image.

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Author: Cyril Pauya Categories: programming Tags: , , , , ,

Django in Production

October 20th, 2009

Here are some quick tips when moving your Django site into production.
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Author: Cyril Pauya Categories: Software, programming Tags: ,

Use multiple Django versions for development

September 23rd, 2009

To use multiple Django versions for development, you will need virtualenv. Virtualenv is a sandbox that allows you to use different versions of Python in your development machine.  It is a tool to create isolated Python environments.

I have been using Django 1.1 beta on my projects.  Just recently, I needed to use Django 1.0 for a new project.  Of course there were major differences from Django 1.0 versus Django 1.1 which could cause headaches.

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Author: Cyril Pauya Categories: programming Tags: , , ,