The Open Library of Humanities main site, and Orbit and IJWWE journal sites are all on Janeway and are hosted on Reclaim Hosting’s great Shared Hosting service. …

Recently I wanted to add a UUID field to an existing model called Institution, this model represents the Institutions that support the Open Library Humanities and the UUID field would represent a referral code. I added the following line to models.py and ran makemigrations. referral_code = models.UUIDField(default=uuid.uuid4) Unfortunately, this works…

Allowing people to upload files to your server can be fraught with peril, we don’t want people to upload malicious files or binaries. In some cases we want to limit uploads to very specific file types, PDF or DOCX for example. Python has a mimetype package that can be used…

Janeway (an open source publishing platform written in Python and using the Django framework) uses an event system that allows apps and plugins to register to be called when an event is fired. An example of this would be when a new submission is made. event_logic.Events.ON_ARTICLE_SUBMITTED This event is called…

Monkey-patching software is generally frowned upon, but there is a time and a place for everything, even monkey-patching. Take Janeway for example, we were working nicely until we had a feature request from a developer who was thinking about using it: Could we handle multi-tenant journals without using multiple domains…

What does this mean!? Well, lets make an example. class Company(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) logo = models.ForeignKey(File, null=True, blank=True) class File(models.Model): filename = models.CharField(max_length=100) mime = models.CharField(max_length=100) Say we have an Company object and a File object. The file object is set to be the logo. company = models.Company.objects.create(name='A Company') file = models.File.objects.create(filename='file.jpg', mime='jpeg')

I’m currently converting chunks of code that make data changes on GET requests to use POST within the Django environment and thought it might be useful to document how I did it here. Here is a snippet of code using a GET request to change data using a query string…

On the 12th of October I will be moving on from my post as Technical Architect at Ubiquity Press. I’ve had a great time working on cutting edge publishing technology and working alongside the teams at UP and our partner presses to provide a great experience During my tenure with…

At Ubiquity Press our new Junior Developer, Stuart Jennings is working to integrate Fundref with our submission platform, allowing authors to submit their Funding info so it can be published and deposited with Crossref. We were informed of the Fundref Widget (info, github), which we used as the basis of…