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Quickly Impersonate Another User In Your Django Project

Posted on Feb 4, 2011 - 4:06 PM Comments (0)

I've created or worked on so many Django projects in the last 4 years that I find myself completely forgetting a project or client all together. It's sort of funny. Anyways...

Too many times I've run into a situation where I, as an admin, need to impersonate another user on the system so I can verify a bug or issue that the user is experiencing. Over the years I've thrown together some internal methods to easily accomplish this.

Well I finally got fed up with the process and decided to roll out a easily re-usable Django ...

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How To Use SuperFeedr In Your Django Project Using DjPubSubHubbub

Posted on Jan 24, 2011 - 6:42 PM Comments (0)

Last year I started using an awesome service called SuperFeedr in a few projects I'm working on. Basically it's a service that notifies me when new content is available. Saves me from having to build a constant polling service to check for new data. You can read all about it on their website as they'll sell it much better than I just did ;)

Since I pretty much write everything I do in Python / Django I went looking for a Django app that supported the PubSubHubbub protocol. After a lot of searching I found there was one app ...

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Nearly 4 Years In and I Still Suck At Writing Blog Posts

Posted on Oct 9, 2010 - 12:22 AM Comments (0)

I first registered the domain name PeterSanchez.com back in 2005 and pretty much had a blog up ever since.

In 2007 I switched from WordPress to Serendipity because I wanted to use PostgreSQL as the database (holy war flame bait, but I f'n hate MySQL!) and WordPress didn't have the support for it.

A few months after that I started to learn a web development framework named Django. Well like any normal developer learning Django my first project was a blogging platform and so I soon switched the platform, yet again, from Serendipity to my personally developed ...

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"Checking In" Is Hot - But Not New!

Posted on Jul 21, 2010 - 11:56 AM Comments (0)

Back in 2007 I started working at a startup named Groovr (which appears to not be in operation anymore.)

The idea behind Groovr was sort of an enhanced Twitter, only without the message limitation. It natively supported image and movie messages being sent to the service. A lot of people loved these features but my favorite was something completely different.

We had been using an idea back then that is all the rage today. "Check Ins" - that is, checking into a location so you're friends can see where you currently are. It was as easy as sending a quick ...

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This Blog Post WILL Make You More Money! (Easy 1 Click Upsales)

Posted on Jun 28, 2010 - 5:08 PM Comments (3)

Well, if you're into selling products over the internet anyways...

Check out this video that shows how quick and easy it is to setup "One Click Upsales" to your existing website using the CartFreak shopping cart.

By now I know you're just dying to see more (right?!?) so follow the links below:

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Brand Spankin' New Design

Posted on Jun 25, 2010 - 5:14 PM Comments (0)

A few weeks ago I went looking around Theme Forest for a new design to use on this website. A lot of people get confused and think that because I am a great web developer — *cough* — that I'm also a great web designer. Well web designer I'm not, and yes, there is a huge difference between the two. When I need a new web design I do it the old fashioned way, I buy it. Either buy a new theme or hire a designer to create something unique for me.

So there are still a few kinks to ...

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UPDATE: ZerigoDNS Python Module

Posted on May 18, 2010 - 3:33 PM Comments (0)

Last december I announced a new open source project I created. It's a Python module to work with the Zerigo DNS service API. Well, the API has been updated with support for two new features, Zone and Host "Templates."

This is an awesome feature and I took some time a week or so ago to update the Python module I created to support these new features. The module will now fully support all Zone and Host Template operations as per the API docs.

You can view (and clone) the source code at it's public repo page here.

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Announcing Python Module For Zerigo Managed DNS API

Posted on Dec 17, 2009 - 6:04 PM Comments (0)

I've been searching for a stable managed DNS service provider for some time now. One of the big "must haves" was an API so I can easily manage my zones (domains) via software that I would create.

I didn't really find any service that tickled my fancy and I was about to give up. Then I stumbled upon a forum post asking for essentially the same thing I was searching for. A person replied and recommended looking into a company called Zerigo, who offers cloud hosting of various services - including DNS.

The web interface is awesome but the ...

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Why I Came Crawling Back To The iPhone

Posted on Oct 2, 2009 - 7:37 PM Comments (0)

Well that didn't take very long did it? Roughly 10 weeks ago I wrote about why I was switching from my iPhone (which I had used for nearly 2 years) back to a BlackBerry.

Well, the other day I broke down and picked up a brand new iPhone 3Gs. I know, I know. I'm a fan boy I guess.

Truth is I love my Blackberry but I also loved the iPhone. With the new release of the iPhone OS (version 3.1), the addition of MMS support (finally!) from AT&T and all the apps I loved and ...

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Why I Ditched My iPhone And Came Back To BlackBerry

Posted on Jul 15, 2009 - 3:48 PM Comments (0)

Wow, I've been missing in action haven't I (at least on this f'n blog.) Sorry about that. I promise to try and write more posts but knowing me I'll get tied up with a ton of other things and put this on the back burner... like I always do.

Anyways, on to the actual article...

A few months ago I finally got frustrated enough with my iPhone that I decided to do something I had been wanting to do for 6 months or so... I switched back to a BlackBerry.

Of course, a few days after ...

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