Today I submitted a package to PyPi called django-datetime-utc. You can install it via Pip:

$ pip install django-datetime-utc

This package provides DateTimeUTCField, a naive datetime model field. In PostgreSQL this translates to the field timestamp without time zone. All timestamps are saved in UTC.

I created this because ...

Typically when you build a Django site and you need to expose your application's data in the form of a RESTful API you would use something like the excellent Django REST Framework. However if you are hosting your site on Google App Engine there is an alternative called Google ...

This post shows how you can send triggered emails asynchronously through Amazon's SES (Simple Email Service) using Django, Celery and RabbitMQ.

First up install and run RabbitMQ:

• Install: sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
• Run: rabbitmq-server

Next install Celery following the instructions here (make sure you add the following to settings ...

Firstly create a database table to hold points of interest. You should probably use South / Django's syncdb. SQL shown for reference:

CREATE TABLE store (
    id integer NOT NULL,
    name character varying(100),
    location geography(Point,4326),
    longitude double precision,
    latitude double precision
);

CREATE INDEX store_location_idx ON store USING gist ...