• Vplay App For Boxee Box

    by  • November 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Work in progress.. Current features: Browse and search tv shows Loads subtitles if available on Vplay Loads thumbnails Browse and search HD Videos section Authentication Boxee repository: http://vplayboxee.appspot.com/ Old boxee repository: http://moprea.ro/repository/ I plan to remove it in the near future, so please use the previous url. GitHub: https://github.com/madalinoprea/ro.moprea.vplay How to setup Boxee Repository Go to [...]

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    iCheckMovies widget for WordPress

    by  • November 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

    What is iCheckMovies? This site solved my problem. I don’t remember what movies I’ve seen or what movies I would like to see. There are thousands of lists that provide interesting suggestions and it’s a nice way to brag to your friends. iCheckMovies Tour: http://www.icheckmovies.com/help/tour/ How looks the Widget? Looks awesome.. Check the image .. How [...]

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    Magento Performance Optimization With Varnish Cache 3

    by  • May 6, 2011 • 0 Comments

    The module works nice and documentation was updated: Magneto-Varnish GitHub Feel free to open any issues here: Magneto-Varnish Issues Features Enable full page caching using Varnish, a super fast caching HTTP reverse proxy. Varnish servers are configurable in Admin, under System / Configuration / General – Varnish Options Automatically clears (only) cached pages when products, [...]

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    Magento Debug Toolbar

    by  • April 7, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Magneto_Debug is a Magento module that adds several panels with debug information for Magento applications. This extension is really awesome if you’re doing Magento development and can be downloaded from github: https://github.com/madalinoprea/magneto-debug. Based on robhudson’s awesome work (https://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar), we’ve created a debug toolbar for Magento. It is installed as a Magento module without hacking Magento’s [...]

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    Logs Aggregation For Django Applications

    by  • March 5, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Sentry Error Details

    What is Sentry? Sentry provides you with a generic interface to view and interact with your error logs. By default, it will catch any exception thrown by Django and store it in a database. With this it allows you to interact and view near real-time information to discover issues and more easily trace them in [...]

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    Create REST Api In Your Django Application

    by  • February 22, 2011 • 0 Comments

    I’ve started some time ago a project that required to implement a REST Api that could be queried by a mobile app. This project is incomplete but can be used as reference to create REST Apis for your Django applications. Checkout the project from GitHub: Django Rest Tutorial. Installation Checkout the tutorial project from GitHub: [...]

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    Starting a Django Project

    by  • February 21, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Django Logo

    Starting a Django Project presents an overview of the workflow required by a Django project. This is not a step by step tutorial for beginners. This is more like a high level image of Django’s architecture and its main goal is to demonstrate how simple a request flow may be, how easy we can define [...]

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    Magento Performance Optimization With Varnish Cache 2

    by  • February 16, 2011 • 0 Comments

    New: Updated post presents a complete Magento extension. This post tries to present some ideas that extend the work of Kalenyuk’s present in a blog post called [Magento performance optimization with Varnish cache ](http://www.kalenyuk.com.ua/magento-performance-optimization-with-varnish-cache-47.html): granular Varnish purging, etc. Magento is an enterprise eCommerce platform that can be described by attributes specific to enterprise software: slow, [...]

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    FW: Database Routers in Django

    by  • February 9, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Check David Cramer’s blog about db routers in Django: http://justcramer.com/2010/12/30/database-routers-in-django/. He provides examples how to use read-only db backends and how to partition db queries per app.

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    Troubleshooting Magento Web Service using Python

    by  • February 6, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Sometime I need to test the functionality of some Magento soap call. To make this pleasant as possible I’ve used a little great Python library called suds and few Python lines. The script can be used for multiple environments (local, staging, production), can use HttpAuthentication if specified and can log verbose SOAP messages. All you [...]

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    Get Recent Tracks From Last.fm Snippet

    by  • February 6, 2011 • 0 Comments

    A simple Python snippet to retrieve your latest tracks played from your Last.fm profile. Requirements Add `LASTFM_API_KEY` and `LASTFM_USERNAME` in your Django app’s settings (if you use Django) – this key can be obtain from [Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/api/account)

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