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Snippet: Syslog Config for Django 1.3

Sean O'Connor — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:34:06 +0000

After a bunch of searching and dealing with odd errors, I finally figured out how to get syslog to play nice with Django 1.3’s new logging config. I’m posting it here for my own future reference and for anybody else who might find it useful.

from logging.handlers import SysLogHandler
LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': True,
    'formatters': {
        'syslog': {
            'format': 'songtrust: %(levelname)s %(module)s "%(message)s"'
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'syslog':{ 
            'level':'DEBUG', 
            'class': 'logging.handlers.SysLogHandler', 
            'formatter': 'syslog', 
            'facility': SysLogHandler.LOG_LOCAL2,
            'address': '/dev/log',
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['syslog'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'propagate': False,
        },
    },
}

Chill The F*!% out over the Google/Verizon Proposal

Sean O'Connor — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:31:57 +0000

In the last week or so since Google and Verizon put out their proposed legislative framework for dealing with net neutrality almost everybody has completely freaked out. I’m all for fighting to keep the internet open but a lot of what I’ve been hearing over the last week has been simply a mess of FUD, irrational screaming, and dogma. Let’s take a look at a number of the complaints that I’ve heard recently that drive me nuts…

Djangocon Early Bird Rates Ending

Sean O'Connor — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:33:16 +0000

Just a quick reminder for everybody that the early bird rates for Djangocon.us 2010 will end tomorrow (6/8) at midnight PDT (GMT-8).

If your planning on attending, sign up today to save $100.

Djangcon.eu 2010 - How to make running a user group feel like cheating (video)

Sean O'Connor — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:06:34 +0000

Djangcon.eu 2010 - How to make running a user group feel like cheating

Sean O'Connor — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:36:43 +0000

Here are the slides from my talk at Djangocon.eu. On their own, they’re not terribly useful but I figured there may be some interest anyway. I’ll update with the much more interesting video of the talk once it’s been posted.

Changes afoot at Django-NYC

Sean O'Connor — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:59:33 +0000

Solango Tips and Gotchas

Sean O'Connor — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:21:15 +0000

For the last week or so I've been wrapping my brain around Solr and Solango. The whole time that I've been doing this I've had the feeling that they can do awesome, powerful things but they're documentation is so poor that I couldn't figure anything out beyond the basic examples. Ultimately I had to dig through a bunch of code and do some experimentation. Now that I've finally figured out how to do what I've been trying to do and have wrapped my brain around some of the trickier bits I'm going to share some of the gotchas and solutions I've found.

sPaste Update

Sean O'Connor — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:08:05 +0000

sPaste|source - a secure, open source, pastebin

Sean O'Connor — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:52:40 +0000

Quick Django Trick

Sean O'Connor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:37:02 +0000