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I present a sample settings.py for a Django project, setup to accomplish the following requirements.
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If you’ve just setup PgBouncer, and you’re getting errors such as `closing because: No such user: *****` , especially if you’ve installed on CentOS the problem may be simple.
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Do you have a need to use different URL pattern sets based on specifics of an HTTP request? Recently, I needed to choose from a predefined URL pattern (ie. URLConf module) based on the domain name of the request, ie. HTTP_HOST. The URL patterns themselves are not dynamically set, just dynamically chosen.
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If you are using an SEO plug-in with WordPress, you may have changed the <title> of one or more of your archives pages. However, the theme you are using is probably making use of the get_the_archive_title() WordPress function to get the title that is used in, for example, the <h1>.
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Every now and again I find myself having to rebuild DNS entries for a client who has Google Apps hosted email. Googling for the appropriate queries gets me there, but in a round about fashion, so I’ve decided to collect the relevant pages here.

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I recently upgraded a Django project to version 1.8, and I am happily using Postgresql and Django’s new UUIDField. While using django-eztables to do the server-side work for DataTables.net, I ran into an issue with a UUID field.

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If you’re using jQuery, and have an entire JSON document document that you would like to post to Django, the correct way to do it is not through a separate variable, but by posting the actual JSON.
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If you are serving dynamic binary content via your ASP.net web application with rudimentary code (eg. simple HttpContext.BinaryWrite) you may find that when utilizing audio or video Chrome does not allow fast forwarding/seeking ahead. This is because Chrome relies strictly on the ability to request byte ranges to supply this functionality. This is done with the Accept-Range HTTP response header.
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The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
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If you’ve progressed beyond the exploration phase in your Django journey, you’ve probably come to the point where, at the least, you would like to use one database during your development, and another, once published to your production system. You may even want to

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