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Testing django over HTTPS with runserver

Django does not have a test server that supports HTTPS. But it is incredibly easy to create an HTTPS server that proxies to django test server; The tool to do this is stunnel.

Avoid waiting for DNS to propagate when registering a domain

When you register a new domain name you do not need to wait 48+ hours for the DNS to "propagate". It never takes me longer the 10 minutes to get from choosing a name to an active website.

Counting lines of code in a python/django project

Today I had the need to count all the lines of code in a django project. To start with I looked for a python script, then it occurred to me that seeing I'm on a *nix I should be doing this on the command line.

Keeping Mercurial history linear

When ever I work on a project that uses Mercurial for DVCS there always seems to be a lot of "Merging up stream."

Mac OS X Disk Utility commands

For my fist post I thought I would keep it simple. The following are two commands related to disk images in OS X.

Introduction

Well where to start! My name is Simon Luijk. I am a python and Javascript developer. This blog is mainly for myself.