Django has a lot of facilities for handling transactions, and it’s not at all clear how to use them. In an attempt to cut through the confusion, here’s a recipe for handling transactions sensibly in Django applications on PostgreSQL.

It took a bit of extra futzing around to get it working under Linux (Fedora 14 in my case), but I got there in the end. Amazingly it supports all my devices (TV, PVR, DVD, RX) despite some of them being ancient and obscure.

Kindle Fire just started shipping yesterday and a super easy one click root / jailbreak solution is already available. We went through the steps, were able to reproduce it and duplicate the end result and we also streamlined it a bit especially for the ones that do not excel in computer skills so here it is for your Kindle Fire rooting / jailbreaking pleasure.

What is the root process bringing to the table? The possibility to install Google Android Marketplace (remember, by default Kindle Fire only comes with Amazon Marketplace), sideloading books on Kindle Fire is another enticing possibility as well.

This article discusses writing man pages for Solaris or Linux, although the instructions will be practically identical for other UNIX systems. The best way to learn how to write a man page is often to take an existing man page that someone else has written and change it for your own needs. However, this article will give you some useful pointers.