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Setting up Django using Apache/mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 8.10
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This article will cover setting up Django using Apache/mod_wsgi on Ubuntu
8.10. The article is targeted at a production environment, but keep in mind
this is a more generalized environment. You may have different requirements,
but this article should at least provide the stepping stones.

The article will use distribution packages where nesscary. As of 8.10 the

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from django.http import HttpResponse
from decorator import decorator
import simplejson as json

@decorator
def json_response(f, *args, **kwargs):
    try:
        status_code = 200
        response = {
            'status': True,

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import datetime
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.utils import simplejson
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

class DateTimeJSONEncoder(simplejson.JSONEncoder):
    """

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IterableCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    initialize: function() {
        //_.bindAll(this, )
        this._resetIndexes();
    },
    _resetIndexes: function() {
        this.currentIndex = 0;
        this.hasSelection = false;
    },
    parse: function(response) {

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$(function(){
    if (!Modernizr.input.placeholder) {
        $('input[placeholder], textarea[placeholder]').each(function(index, elem) {
            elem = $(elem);
            placeholder = elem.attr('placeholder');
            elem_id = elem.attr('id');
            elem_name = elem.attr('name');
            
            clone = elem.clone();
            clone.hide();

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    // execute callback only after a pause in user input; the function returned
    // can be used to handle an event type that tightly repeats (such as typing
    // or scrolling events); it will execute the callback only if the given timout
    // period has passed since the last time the same event fired
    function createOnPause(callback, timeout, _this) {
        return function(e) {
            var _that = this;
            if (arguments.callee.timer)
                clearTimeout(arguments.callee.timer);
            arguments.callee.timer = setTimeout(function() { 

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"""
Straight Include template tag by @HenrikJoreteg

Django templates don't give us any way to escape template tags.

So if you ever need to include client side templates for ICanHaz.js (or anything else that
may confuse django's templating engine) You can is this little snippet.

Just use it as you would a normal {% include %} tag. It just won't process the included text.

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# Setting up a local solr instance on a mac

# install solr with homebrew
brew install solr

# create the base solr index directory
mkdir -p /data/solr

# make sure you can write to the solr logs
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/Cellar/solr/

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#!/bin/sh
find . -name '*.pyc' -print0|xargs -0 rm