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This means you have a naming conflict between the core python module calendar and another one which is taking precendence.

If you’ve got your own module called calendar, rename it…

Now I’ve got a Wii Fit, I want other games to play on the board

Wii Fit Games Info

You can access the Django request within a Template Tag by enabling the request context processor.

If you’re using a generic view, for example, ‘direct_to_template’, your render() function will then be passed a RequestContext , and you can access the request by context[’request’].

If you’re not using a generic view, and are using render_to_response(), then you have to explicitly pass context_instance=RequestContext(request) as the third parameter.

You enable the request context processor by adding this to your settings file:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ('django.core.context_processors.request',)

You might also need to add back the default context processors. These vary from version to version - check the django documentation for the settings file for details.

For example, in 0.96, I’ve got this in my settings file

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ('django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.core.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.debug',
'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
)


Just finished my first year of learning spanish. Here’s a page with links to various things I found useful: podcasts, TV shows, and books - Learning Spanish

Trying to get a Wii Fit is almost impossibile - none of the shops have any in stock. Even Amazon has stocks only for a few minutes each time they get some before they’re all gone. Very frustrating! So one quiet evening, I wrote a real-time stock checker to tell me when they were in stock.

And now I’m the happy owner of a Wii Fit, and very excellent it is too…

And then I thought, hmm, that’s a good idea, so I bagged a domain name and here’s the website - Where Is It In Stock?

A new website I’ve been working on… http://www.howsafeisyourmoney.co.uk

Looking for a way of going swimming/kayaking/windsurfing with your iPod? I can thoroughly recommend the H3 headphones and iPod Shuffle case, both made by H20 Audio.
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You need to install php5-mysql.

And then don’t forget to restart Apache. Just reloading won’t work.

For when you need to resize the partition you usually work in

GParted LiveCD

And for when you’ve muffed up your grub installation, and can’t work out how to use grub-install

Super Grub Disk

• The obvious cause of this is that the settings.py doesn’t have the directory containing blah listed in INSTALLED_APPS.
• A less obvious cause: you’ll also get this error if the directory doesn’t contain a file __init__.py.