Category: Django

Recently I have been diving into using signals with Django, which of course are pretty neat. I am working on a website for work which in the most basic explanation, is a task management site. Recently I have added in the ability to subscribe to tasks and get emails, I did this by connecting to theContinue readingHow to not trigger a post_save in Django, but still modify data.

My boss tasked me with getting the load time of 90 seconds(HOLY CARP!) on one page down. First thing I did was install the Django Debug Toolbar to see what was really happening. There are currently 2,000 users in the database, the way our model is setup is that a UserProfile can have other UserProfilesContinue readingHelp, I have too many Django ManyToMany Queries [FIXED]

For work I had to write a custom url model field. This model field when setting up accepts a default protocol, and a list of other protocols. When checking the protocol, the url is split by “://”. If the split has one or two parts, then the url is validly formed.In the event of aContinue readingCustom Django URLField