Django email setup on Hostgator

On Hostgator it is possible to run Django applications with FastCgi, but it has only sendmail as email back-end which is not included in Django.

Hopefully there is a snipets to resolve this limitation. You just needed to change the path of the sendmail file and it was ready to run. The location of sendmail is "/usr/sbin/sendmail" on our Hostgator server.

And the email backend should be configured in your settings.py by adding the following line:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'sendmail.EmailBackend'

Dajngo app unicode JSON repsonse

If your django application has unicode data, and your view uses jquery and JSON response, do not forget to specify the encoding for the mimetype:

return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(your_data),
mimetype='application/json; charset=utf-8')

django-expense v0.2.0

Django-expense, a simple personal expense tracker application for Django.

Version 0.2.0 has just released with the following new features:

• Charts, using flot jQuery library.


• Updated documentation with screen shoots.


• Fixed expense screen appearance with django 1.3.


• Added test application into the source tree to make trying/testing easier.
• Added initial data.

Source code is available on bitbucket.


If you have any question, feel free to open a ticket or send a message.

Have fun!

django-expense

About two years ago I tired Dajngo, the popular python web framework. I was impressed how easy and logical is the usage of it. I started to create some simple apps only for personal usage. One of these apps was django-expense, a simple personal/family expense tracker application.

Now I refactored a bit and put the source to bitbucket.

From the user view: It is uses the default Dajngo admin site and you can record expenses and check them in monthly or yearly view.

From technical view, you can find examples to the following django specific areas:

• Aggregation


• Customized ChangeList view


• Custom filterspec

If you interested you can get the source using mercurial from bitbucket or download the latest version.