Category index for “free”

Free t-shirt from New Relic

New Relic - service for site monitoring. It shows statistic of your application, where it spend most of time, how often it access the database and many other information. For description of this cool service i need to write a separate post. Here i want to tell about another thing - how i’ve got a free t-shirt from New Relic.

Actually, it is needed just to register and setup New Relic on a working web site. As it said in their offer.

Remote url for localhost server

There is a nice tool called ngrok. It allows to bind the URL for your localhost server!

Send email in django project with mandrill service

To send email messages from server we can just use SMTP protocol. But there is another way - special email services. I’ll describe one of them here, mandrill.com.

Script for downloading music from vkontakte

A quick search of corresponding python script doesn’t give results. In post on habra link is broken. So i decided to write my own bicycle, it is avaliable here.

Launch (needs installed python interpreter):

python vkcom_audio_download.py

Tested on python 2.6 and 2.7. No external libraries required.

Cloud service Openshift

I know a few hosting providers with free account and python availability. It is Google App Engine and Alwaysdata. But recently i found great project Openshift from RedHat and this blog site is working on it. Let me describe mentioned hostings first.