All articles by Vláďa Macek

The recommended way to add decorators such as login_required to class based views in Django is a bit verbose. Here’s a little metaclass-producing function you may find handy: def DecoratedDispatchMethod(actual_decorator): """ If you want to decorate the Class-based View with, …

Without patching, the rsync utility lacks support to detect when a file was renamed/moved across multiple directories inside the synced tree. There is a ––fuzzy option to save bandwidth by building upon similar files on the target side, but only …

Recently we noticed some intermittent slow downs with our Gondola sites and wanted to track down the source of the issue. Our sites are all Django projects served by Apache/mod_wsgi behind an Nginx frontend proxy. Nginx’s upstream module makes the …