create thumbnail on image upload in django

Django does not provide any standard way of organizing thumbnails.
Even though community has some applications to work with thumbnails, they are usually over kill if You only want to create a thumbnail for an ImageField. So here is my solution to handle thumbnails.

To hande thumbnails I over-wrote my model's save method to read original image field into a StringIO, manipulate the image and save it into a thumbnail image.
first of you need a python PIL library so first install it :

sudo apt-get install libjpeg libjpeg-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev

pip install PIL 

Here is the code.

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x-mvc form validation

in new x-mvc i have added form validation it is so simple and usable

reference link : https://www.npmjs.org/package/x-mvc

How to use

Install from npm

npm install x-mvc

Instantiate a new form_validation object

req.library.load('form_validation');

/** construct a new form_validation object passing the data array to validate
  * date array should contain a set of objects formatted as following
  * {fieldName: value}
 */ 
var data = {
    name: 'foo bar',
    email: 'foo@bar.com'
}
var form_validation = new req.library.form_validation(data);

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