Using a virtualenv with CodeRunner.app
I’m a big fan of using Virtualenv (and virtualenvwrapper) where possible. It allows you to cleanly manage multiple Python environments. I also occasionally use CodeRunner to test, debug and run standalone scripts. It wasn’t immediately clear to me how to make CodeRunner run inside one of my virtualenvs so this post gives a quick outline on how to get the two to work nicely together.Using sorl thumbnail and easy thumbnails in the same template
At times you need to use both
sorl.thumbnailandeasy_thumbnailsin the same template. Both of these apps define athumbnailtemplate tag from athumbnailtemplate module meaning that you will be able to use one or the other but not both. To get around this, you can install a great app calleddjango-smart-load-tagMisconceptions with "select_related" in Django
Django’s
select_relatedQuerySet method is a great way to reduce the query count when joining tables but it should come with small print in the documentation. This post goes over that small print.Django CMS Urls not reversing properly
I encountered a strange problem when making use of a custom AppHook with django-cms. When I mounted a custom app on a cms page, reversing the urls in the template for that app (using get_absolute_url) was producing incorrect urls.