By : Thejaswi Puthraya

Dropbox announced new pro plans last week and some accounts have had their storage size doubled. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could upload all our files to dropbox from our django webapp?

In this post, I write a custom file upload handler that will upload files from our application to dropbox.

Let us see how to use the custom file upload handler.

Install the Dropbox Python SDK before you setup your django app to handle the file uploads.

In your settings.py, add the following attributes (with the values filled):

DROPBOX_APP_KEY = ""
DROPBOX_APP_SECRET_KEY = ""
DROPBOX_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN = ""
DROPBOX_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = ""

# Optional values below

# The ...

By : Thejaswi Puthraya

Quite a few of our clients are powered by Amazon EC2 or Rackspace and we use Ubuntu LTS releases for our servers. Canonical provides EC2 AMIs and Openstack images for all their releases. By using these JeOS images on the server as well as on the development platform reduces the dev/prod parity which we discussed in a previous post.

In this post, we'll see how to setup the Ubuntu cloud images in the local KVM hypervisor. Unlike the previous post, we'll use only the virt-manager to do the initial provisioning but you can be assured that there ...

By : Akshar Raaj

In this post we will be talking about Metaclass in python. If you are reading some code which uses metaclass, you will probably come across __new__. If you are not familiar with what __new__ does, i suggest you first read about __new__.

You can read about __new__ in our last to last post

Throughout this post we will be talking about new style classes. Things might differ in old-style classes.

As we go, i will be trying everything on IPython and suggest you as well to try everything on IPython.

Let's see a little bit about normal Objects in ...