Viewing posts by sjdines

SyDjango November 2015 - Intro to Testing

Posted by: sjdines 7 years, 3 months ago

Below is a filming of the talk I did at SyDjango.

read more / Comments

SyDjango September 2015 - ElasticSearch on Django with Haystack

Posted by: sjdines in SyDjango, Talk 7 years, 3 months ago

Below is a filming of the talk I did at SyDjango.

read more / Comments

Closing a frozen SSH session

Posted by: sjdines in server 7 years, 4 months ago

I always forget this so I am putting it here to remember it for the future!

read more / Comments

Rebuilding `Pillow` with PIP once new image support libraries are installed.

Posted by: sjdines in pip, server 7 years, 5 months ago

One `gotcha` when adding new image support libraries and using `Pillow` is that they don't automatically become available for use, you will need to reinstall `Pillow`. But if you have caching enabled it will install the prebuilt version from last time and not search for the system image libraries.

read more / Comments

SyDjango - An introduction in setting up and using elastic

Posted by: sjdines in search, server 7 years, 5 months ago

Installing Elastic Search

Ubuntu

Dependencies

The easiest option is to install OpenJDK as follows: 
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
Elastic search actually recommends using Oracle Java which can be installed as follows 
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer

Installation

  1. Obtain the GPG key for the source 
    wget -O - http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
  2. Add the source to ubuntu's sources list 
    echo 'deb http://packages.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/1.4/debian stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elasticsearch.list
  3. Update the package list from the sources list 
    sudo apt-get update
  4. Install the Elastic Search package 
    sudo apt-get -y install elasticsearch=1.4.4

Configuration

Configuration can go on extensively depending upon what you require. Out of the box is good enough to get you stared with the following change.

read more / Comments

About Me

Hi there!
My name is Stuart Dines but I usually go by the name Stu. This site is my personal blog covering some of the topics I am interested in.
More about me.

Recent Posts

Archive

2015
2014
2013
2012

Categories