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[Django Day] - La meta é vicina!
[Django Day] - La meta é vicina! body,.backgroundTable{ background-color:#eeeeee; } #contentTable{ border:0px none #000000; margin-top:10px; } .headerTop{ background-color:#0B2226; border-top:1px none #000000; border-bottom:0px none #000000; text-align:right; padding:0px; } .adminText{ font-size:10px; color:#407F6A; line-height:200%; font-family:Helvetica; text-decoration:none; } .headerBar{ background-color:#1F4C4A; border-top:0px none #333333; border-bottom:0px none #FFFFFF; padding:0px; } .headerBarText{ color:#333333; font-size:30px; font-family:Helvetica; font-weight:normal; text-align:left; } .postcardBarText{ color:#333333; font-size:9px; font-family:Helvetica; font-weight:normal; text-align:center; } .title{ font-size:24px; font-weight:bold; color:#407F6A; font-family:Helvetica; line-height:150%; } .subTitle{ font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; color:#000000; font-style:normal; font-family:Helvetica; } .defaultText{ font-size:12px; color:#333333; line-height:150%; font-family:Helvetica; background-color:#FFFFFF; padding:20px; border:0px none #FFFFFF; } .footerRow{ background-color:#0B2226; border-top:1px solid #000000; padding:20px; } .footerText{ font-size:10px; color:#1F4C4A; line-height:100%; font-family:Helvetica; } a,a:link,a:visited{ color:#17488a; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal; } .headerTop a{ color:#407F6A; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; } .footerRow a{ color:#407F6A; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; } body,.backgroundTable{ background-color:#0B2226; } a,a:link,a:visited{ color:#407F6A; } #templateHeader{ padding:0px; background-color:#304948; } Il gruppo WEBdeBS (Web Developer Bresciani), in collaborazione con l’associazione Python Italia, sta organizzando il primo Django Day a livello nazionale. La conferenza si terrà a Brescia il 28 Aprile 2012. Manca poco!: Il DjangoDay si avvicina! non perder l'occasione di assistere alle presentazioni dei protagonisti di primo piano della community nazionale ed europea. Sei un geek con il pallino delle startup? Szilveszter Farkas parlerà di come a Prezi è stato realizzato un editor web-based di presentazione zoom con oltre 9 milioni di utenti registrati, costruito su … -
[Django Day] - La meta é vicina!
[Django Day] - La meta é vicina! Il gruppo WEBdeBS (Web Developer Bresciani), in collaborazione con l’associazione Python Italia, sta organizzando il primo Django Day a livello nazionale. La conferenza si terrà a Brescia il 28 Aprile 2012. Manca poco!: Il DjangoDay si avvicina! non perder l'occasione di assistere alle presentazioni dei protagonisti di primo piano della community nazionale ed europea. Sei un geek con il pallino delle startup? Szilveszter Farkas parlerà di come a Prezi è stato realizzato un editor web-based di presentazione zoom con oltre 9 milioni di utenti registrati, costruito su Django. Parlerà delle sfide che hanno affrontato scalando l' infrastruttura e la società allo stesso tempo. Alcuni temi e "buzz words" verranno spiegate più in dettaglio: scalabilità Django, testing, interruttorifunzionalità e kanban. Le conferenze WEBdeBS si contraddistinguono nell’affrontare esperienze reali tramite il cosiddetto approccio for real: “poche chiacchere e tanta ciccia”. Social Badge: Il badge del Django Day sarà qualcosa di veramente fuori dal comune. Le conferenze sono un ottimo posto dove ampliare il proprio network di conoscenze sia tecniche che professionali. Non è noioso scambiarsi indirizzi, nickname twitter, contatti LinkedIn? Il tempo dei biglietti da visita è finito! Con il Social Badge i tuoi profili online diventano de QR code leggibili con qualunque smartphone! Fatti trovare in un attimo! Compila questo form per avere il tuo Social badge Pre-Conf-Dinner! Sarai a Brescia … -
Release 0.7.0 final
We are happy to announce the first final release of LFS 0.7. Whats new in 0.7? Customer related taxes Global image management Using django_compressor Pluggable shipping price calculators Pluggable order number generation Calculation of base price Added product attachments New portlets SEO information for shop and pages Portlets for pages Type of quantity field Context aware help for the management interface Improved pluggable product price calculators Improved pluggable payment processors Improved templates for notification mails See here for more. Information You can find more information and help on following locations: Documentation on PyPI Demo Releases on PyPI Source code on bitbucket.org and github. Google Group lfsproject on Twitter IRC LFS on EuroPython 2012 We are sprinting on this year's EuroPython in Florence. Don't hesitate to join us, see https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/sprints/ and LFS sprint topics for more. -
Django filefield limitation: 100 chars max
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IE7 popover problem
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Reviews42 platform Architecture
Few months back, was given the responsibility to architect and deliver a community based reviews platform. The first of it's kind in India. After initial discussions, the priorities finally came to: ScalabilityEasy to integrate with external platformsReady to port on different application platforms Being a Django fanatic, it was my obvious tool of choice to start with, and to built a platform around it. The platform itself is now based on open source software/tools, and it's technology stack comprises of: DjangoMySQLMongoDBMemcachedApache SolrRabbitMQ All these things were put together to create a SOA based software platform which is not only easy to scale and integrate with other external platforms and services, but also easy to expand into other platforms/devices. The current platform architecture can be logically represented as something like the following: Eventually, the Reviews42 platform made it's debut on 30th March 2012, with the launch of it's Django powered Web App, and possibly the rest of the apps will follow in the future. Share your views about the architectural design, the nice and also the nasty ones. -
Join us at DjangoCon Europe!
This year in June, the European edition of DjangoCon is going to be held in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. It is my great fortune and delight to announce that Audrey and I will be attending. Hooray! Needless to say, we're extremely excited. My trip to Europe in 2007 was an amazingly fun and educational experience, and I can't wait to share a similar experience with Audrey. We can't wait to see all our old European friends, make new ones, and be dazzled by what Europe has to offer. Also, let's face it, the conference is going to be incredible. They've lined up some awesome venues, the food (cheese, chocolate, muesli, etc) in Switzerland is world-renowned, the website looks fantastic, and they've got Jacob Kaplan-Moss to keynote. It looks so good I'm surprised there are any sponsor slots left! Talks While attending the conference, we submitted and hope to give a presentation on the positives (speed, flexibility, community, etc) and negatives (a few) of using MongoDB as a Django datastore. I'm also considering giving a second talk. Some ideas for that include: Zen of Django Django isn't for beginners (A Tredennick inspired talk explaining why teaching beginning developers Django isn't a good … -
Join us at DjangoCon Europe!
This year in June, the European edition of DjangoCon is going to be held in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. It is my great fortune and delight to announce that Audrey and I will be attending. Hooray! Needless to say, we're extremely excited. My trip to Europe in 2007 was an amazingly fun and educational experience, and I can't wait to share a similar experience with Audrey. We can't wait to see all our old European friends, make new ones, and be dazzled by what Europe has to offer. Also, let's face it, the conference is going to be incredible. They've lined up some awesome venues, the food (cheese, chocolate, muesli, etc) in Switzerland is world-renowned, the website looks fantastic, and they've got Jacob Kaplan-Moss to keynote. It looks so good I'm surprised there are any sponsor slots left! Talks While attending the conference, we submitted and hope to give a presentation on the positives (speed, flexibility, community, etc) and negatives (a few) of using MongoDB as a Django datastore. I'm also considering giving a second talk. Some ideas for that include: Zen of Django Django isn't for beginners (A Tredennick inspired talk explaining why teaching beginning developers Django isn't a good … -
uWSGI
uWSGI. Hatte ich scheinbar noch nicht – ein Kollege hat mich gerade darauf hingewiesen. Könnte besonders für Django-Projekte interessant sein, weil es wesentlich flexiblere Prozesssteuerung und Monitoring bietet als der flup-basierte runfcgi in Django. -
The state of Django money.
Updated (2012-04-11): Now contains the final and correct pip install command. TL;DR: pip install django-money will give you a working set of Django fields that handle Money and Currency. Read below for how that happened. I began this Easter weekend trying to finish up one of my pet-projects and get it ready to publish. The goal of the website is to compare providers, of the same thing, from around the world. Representing prices is simple. A float will do if you are in a hurry. Except. When you need to perform calculations and you run into rounding errors. At that point you will likely discover the Decimal module. Which also works perfectly fine. And if you only ever deal in a single market that is fine. But across markets? That requires Money. Money is normally defined as a value and currency. Once you have both of those, you can then do cross-market comparison – and upgrade you program to handle multi-currency – easily. I hoped that I was not the only person who had realised this, so I started to look around. And I struck gold! I found Python Money. It even included appropriate Django fields as well. Unfortunately it … -
Django book status
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Paranoid Django Templates
If you've ever wanted to know if a Django template is using a variable it shouldn't be, or not using a variable it should, this code will make both cases fail loudly. Django's default template behaviour is to silently replace missing variables with an empty string, and ignore unused variables. To use this code you can either: wrap your Context (or RequestContext) object in your view with a ParanoidContextProxy that will fail on any attempt to access a missing variable, or use the paranoid_render_to_response function (or similar) to also require that every variable you pass be used in the template. -
vim tips
He actualitzat la configuració que faig servir per a fer feina amb Vim per programar amb Python i Django a partir de l'article de sontek, llevant coses que no faig servir o que m'agrada més tenir en una consola: py.test, git, etc. i afegint algunes definicions que m'han anat molt bé a llarg dels anys. Ho podeu trobar a http://code.google.com/p/trespams-vim/ La millora més important és la descoberta de Pathogen, que ens permet gestionar millor els plugins i del plugin gundu que ens permet veure els canvis a un fitxer, com si fos un control de versions local. Manteng cla configuració de backup i com que tinc força memòria als ordinadors que faig servir tenc llevat també el swapfile. Aquest punt em servirà com a recordatori de combinacions de tecles útils a més de les habituals de vim. Tecla leader. Surt per tot a vim. Mapejada a coma (,) Tancar la finestra quickfix ,cc Anar a una finestra: ctrl+jklh Veure els registres: ,r Copiar a un registre texte seleccinat: "y Aferrar des d'un registre "<registre>p" Mostrar la finestra de canvis: `g Canvia el directori de treball: ,. Executa el validador PEP8 ,8 Veure els marcadors: :marks Estableix un marcador m Ves … -
Using Arrays as Materialized Paths in Postgres
Something we’ve been casually working on at Disqus for quite some time is an improved pagination method for threaded comments. This is obviously pretty important to us, it drives the very foundation of our product. It also happens to be an area that’s somewhat challenging, and has a … -
Release 0.7.0 beta 7
We just released LFS 0.7.0 beta 7. This is the next beta relase of the 0.7 branch. What's new? Bugfix: display ``displayed properties`` in the correct order py positions; issue #184 Bugfix: display property options in the correct order by positions within filter portlet Bugfix: fixed image presentation directly after upload within shop management interface (Maciej Wi?niowski) Bugfix: fixed display of discounts New: added variants tab to documentation Updated Polish translations (Maciej Wi?niowski) Updated German translations Information You can find more information and help on following locations: What's new for version 0.7 Documentation on PyPI Demo Releases on PyPI Source code on bitbucket.org and github. Google Group lfsproject on Twitter IRC LFS on EuroPython 2012 We are sprinting on this year's EuroPython in Florence. Don't hesitate to join us, see: https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/sprints/ and LFS sprint topics for more. -
Release 0.6.13
We just released LFS 0.6.13. This is a yet another bugfix release of the 0.6 branch. Changes Bugfix: fixed display prices for properties (Maciej Wi?niowski) Bugfix: fixed TinyMCE for several browsers (Maciej Wi?niowski) Bugfix: display credit card fields if the type of the selected payment method is credit card; #issue: 191 Information You can find more information and help on following locations: Documentation on PyPI Demo Releases on PyPI Source code on bitbucket.org and github. Google Group lfsproject on Twitter IRC LFS on EuroPython 2012 We are sprinting on this year's EuroPython in Florence. Don't hesitate to join us, see https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/sprints/ and LFS sprint topics for more. -
Using Arrays as Materialized Paths in Postgres
Something we've been casually working on at Disqus for quite some time is an improved pagination method for threaded comments. This is obviously pretty important to us, it drives the very foundation of our product. It also happens to be an area that's somewhat challenging, and has a wide array of... -
Using Arrays as Materialized Paths in Postgres
Something we've been casually working on at Disqus for quite some time is an improved pagination method for threaded comments. This is obviously pretty important to us, it drives the very foundation of our product. It also happens to be an area that's somewhat challenging, and has a wide array of... -
Release 0.5.2
We just released LFS 0.5.2. This is a yet another bugfix release of the 0.5 branch. Changes Bugfix: display displayed properties in the correct order py positions; issue #184 Bugfix: display property options in the correct order by positions within filter portlet Information You can find more information and help on following locations: Documentation on PyPI Demo Releases on PyPI Source code on bitbucket.org and github. Google Group lfsproject on Twitter IRC LFS on EuroPython 2012 We are sprinting on this year's EuroPython in Florence. Don't hesitate to join us, see https://ep2012.europython.eu/p3/sprints/ and LFS sprint topics for more. -
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Caktus' Django Fundamentals Bootcamp
I'm excited to announce that on June 9th and 10th, Caktus will be hosting our first Django bootcamp. It will be a two day intensive bootcamp session where you'll learn the basics of developing a web application using Django through constructing a crossword drill application, created by the Caktus staff. It will go over the ... -
Caktus' Django Fundamentals Bootcamp
I’m excited to announce that on June 9th and 10th, Caktus will be hosting our first Django bootcamp. It will be a two day intensive bootcamp session where you’ll learn the basics of developing a web application using Django through constructing a crossword drill application, created by the Caktus staff. It will go over the architecture of Django and also different third party applications that will allow you to enhance the finished product. For more information regarding our bootcamp, you can check out the schedule of the day’s events. -
Python Library for University of Waterloo Open Data API
Open Data is awesome. I think there is real value in information made available through flexible standards such as JSON for build the next generation of useful web experiences. The Open Data initiative at the University of Waterloo has gathered their api at api.uwaterloo.ca which gives you access to courses, parking, and the weather. I created a Python library to wrap the API to make it even easier to use: https://bitbucket.org/amjoconn/uwaterlooapi* *github version to come soon >>> from uwaterlooapi import UWaterlooAPI >>> uw = UWaterlooAPI(api_key="YOUR API KEY") >>> uw.weather() {u'Date': u'04-01-2012', u'Current': {u'Windchill': u'NA', u'Temp': u'4.1', ... I was bit surprised not to find a Python library designed to make building REST API wrappers easier. My approach, like most API wrappers, is a good start, but lacks the elegance of a solution applied to many different instances of the problem. Let me know if you create something using this library. -
Tracking deployments in Graphite
We use Graphite in Web Development to track metrics on our sites. For the Marketplace and Addons team, it has been a real eye opener into the state of our sites. One thing that I’ve wanted to add is information on when deployments occur as these are often critical periods that can trigger changes in the graphs. Sure enough, this has all been done before and covered in a blog post. Following on from that blog post, here’s how I added this for the Marketplace. First, I added a management command to django-statsd that allows you to easily send a ping to Graphite for a specific key. The value of the key is set to be a UNIX time stamp. Once that was in place I altered our deployment scripts so that on each update they send a ping with the key “update”: python2.6 manage.py statsd_ping --key=update Then each time a server is deployed that key gets added to Graphite. Next, I altered our graphs so that they show this ping as a vertical line. That’s using the command drawAsInfinite, for example: drawAsInfinite(stats.timers.addons-dev.update.count) Our development server updates on every commit. In other words, it continually deploys all the time. This … -
Tracking deployments in Graphite
We use Graphite in Web Development to track metrics on our sites. For the Marketplace and Addons team, it has been a real eye opener into the state of our sites. One thing that I’ve wanted to add is information on when deployments occur as these are often critical periods that can trigger changes in [...]
