Coder’s Eye

Whew. I spent quite a bit more time debugging this problem than it really should have taken. Django just wasn’t playing nice with the latest Lighttpd pre-release.
Long story short
Don’t use the prerelease, use the most recent 1.4.x stable. Save yourself hours of cursing and trace-debugging.
Analysis
Lighttpd had the following problems:

No request PATH_INFO. […]

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I’m continuing to enjoy working with jQuery.

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I’m going to be using Satchmo to power the backend of a highly customized store that I’m building for a new client.

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I’ve always disliked having to write __repr__ methods for my classes. In Django, it is especially important, since the admin pages use that method to give you Python is moderately unusual in that it allows classes to have multiple inheritance.

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Usually I am satisfied by the commandline tools available in OSX.

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I don’t know how many times I’ve had to write a function to safely join url path components.

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I’m using Joomla with VirtueCart for a new business venture.

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As part of the Django Storefront system I am writing, I needed to send multipart messages. The base Django mail functionality doesn’t seem to do this, at least not with my version of Python.

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I’ve been delaying using a related entries plugin because it didn’t fit with my normal way of posting. See, it uses a Wordpress custom field "keywords" to do its matching.

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After my rant yesterday, it is time to share another programming tool I find absolutely indispensable. IPython is an enhanced command-line shell for Python.
By itself, that may not sound like much, but you really get a lot. You get command history, tab-completion, and automatic introspection of classes. That means you can look […]

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