Jonathan@BluMarble

This is a small helper function I wrote this morning in PHP to delete a directory containing multiple directories and files inside it. Its pretty simple to follow, however the one snag I encountered was distinguishing between files and directories has to be done using an absolute path:

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Just noticed an urgent security update available on the django website. The django team’s description of the vulnerability:

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One of the things that used to bug me a bit about using the python interactive console was that it didn’t support tab completion. So here a short “how to”, written for Linux and Mac users. Windows users – please see the tailing note.

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Always up for debate, I though I’d put my opinion out there as to the best Python Editors or IDEs currently available. The most important thing to look for in an Editor is the comfort, ease of use and GUI, effective code completion, scalability, debugging capability, and speed. I’ve decided to profile five Python IDEs / Editors and rate each on these criteria. I’ve also decided to only mention editors available on the three main operating systems, Linux (Gnome), OSX, Windows and are either open source or freeware.

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Django comes equipped with a very powerful set of shell commands accessible via the manage.py file in each of your django projects. These are few that I use relatively often as required. All the descriptions and commands have been extracted via ./manage.py –help, run the command from the terminal for a full list of subcommands.

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