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Python – Set character encoding to UTF-8

In Python, the default character encoding set is ASCII, limiting us to a bunch of 128 basic characters. Though, in most sites, we may use accented characters or other various symbols. So in the default Python settings, you may come [...]

Django CMS – enable URL prefix (useful for proxy URLs)

March 8th, 2012

This modification is to add a URL prefix to all URLs, so all the link generated within the CMS will have that prefix automatically implemented. The reason I have implemented that change is because I had to match the URLs [...]

Be responsive. Be adaptable.

March 5th, 2012

Responsive design is becoming increasingly popular in the world of web design and development, and this not a coincidence, as I will explain. But first what is ‘responsive design’? Whilst it may sound obvious to some, a responsive design has [...]

Mac OS X Lion: Install the Python Image Library (PIL)

January 10th, 2012

First make sure you have lib jpeg install for JPEG handling 123456$ curl -O http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz $ tar zxvf jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz $ cd jpeg-8c/ $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install Then I use pip to install PIL 1$ sudo pip [...]

Facebook page tab: hide scroll bars from iframe

October 18th, 2011

In the following case, we are using an iFrame to render a page tab in our Facebook page. The page in the iFrame is hosted on a different server. 1. First of all, we need to setup the Facebook app [...]

Will new Google programming language “DART” take off?

October 11th, 2011

Google has recently released the first version of DART, a simplified Object-Orientated Language for the web. It is bascially a language that compiles into Javascript, or can be run from a Virtual Machine. DART aim at easing the programming of [...]

Elegant Twitter share button and dialog with jQuery

October 5th, 2011

Twitter, Facebook and many other social networking website offers embedded code to add share buttons on our website. The thing is, they all have different dimensions and looks, which can make your page style quite inconsistent. So the idea is [...]

Facebook EdgeRank on the footpath of Google PageRank for optimisation encouragement?

October 4th, 2011

Just like Google did many years ago with PageRank, Facebook has revealed earlier this year the existence of a ranking algorithm aka “EdgeRank” to calculate the relevancy of content posted on Facebook. As expected, Facebook hasn’t revealed the exact formula but [...]

Mac OS X Lion: The perfect setup for Python / Django

September 26th, 2011

If like me, you are developing Django applications on a Mac, you will probably face a few issues when upgrading to Lion. In my case, I haven’t even upgraded, I decided to wipe it all out and start from a [...]

Ubuntu 9.10: Install PIL in Virtualenv

September 22nd, 2011

Re-blogged from Eddie Welker I started with a –no-site-packages virtualenv, so as not to use (or more importantly depend) on any of the global site-packages. Ok, cool. 1$ virtualenv –no-site-packages myEnv First, I needed to install the python developer tools. [...]

Code Igniter: Mixing segment-based URL with GET querystring

September 15th, 2011

Working on a microsite running on Code Igniter, I faced a dilema of adding and extra query string in a page URL, which is already using segment based URL (eg. domain.com/controller_name/page/). Basically I’m trying to do this: domain.com/controller_name/page/?param=myvalue. Unfortunately CI [...]

Create a new Mercurial repository on Mac

September 9th, 2011

Every months or so, I create a new repository for the development project I work on. But I always tend to forget how to setup the repository, so here’s a quick start quide which I found very helpful and I [...]