Ever needed to quickly change colours in an EPS file with a text editor

From August 2009 Amazon requires you to add an authentication signature to every request to their Product Advertising API (ECS). I have been using the wonderful PyAWS library for a few years so took upon myself to add this feature.

I recently had to find a bug in a site running Django. The site made heavy use of Django's file based caching, somewhere in the region of 100,00 files. The problem turned out to be that the current Django file caching code was not really intended to handle this many files.

Managed to get Indesign CS2 running under Wine today, woohoo, one less thing tying me down to Windows.

This templatetag allows you to use pil (python image library) to render out text in a custom font and colour. I recently created this template tag for a project I am working on, I haven't seen anything similar so I thought I would share it.