Category Archives: Web Development

Right way to break Django code for debugguing

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Satish Gandham

Django traceback is a very helpful tool in Django development. It saves us from the boring tasking of writing print statements to track variables. Traceback doesn’t kick when there is no error.  There may be no coding errors but there … Continue reading →

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Error whil creating super user in django1.4 on MAC

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Satish Gandham

I got the following error while trying to create a super user from shell for django1.4. File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py”, line 85, in get_system_username     return getpass.getuser().decode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]) TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None This problem was rectified by running … Continue reading →

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How to start stop apache on MAC OSX

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Satish Gandham

start Apache apachectl start Stop Apache apachectl stop Restart Apache apachectl restart If the above commands don’t work, try these /etc/init.d/httpd start /etc/init.d/httpd stop /etc/init.d/httpd restart You can also start the web server from the system preferences. Open system preferences, … Continue reading →

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Where is httpd.conf file in Mac OSX Lion

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Satish Gandham

On mac httpd.conf file is located in the directory /etc/apache2/. You can access it through terminal if you want to navigate to it through finder, on finder toolbar goto go->go to folder and type in /etc/apache2

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When mobile browsers don’t respect CSS3 media queries

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Satish Gandham

If mobile browsers are not respecting your media queries and showing desktop instead of mobile site, add this meta tag before linking the style sheet. <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width”>

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