Django community: RSS
This page, updated regularly, aggregates Community blog posts from the Django community.
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My Accidental Connection with Senator Ted Kennedy
Being Chinese in Boston, I always hear positive stories about the late Senator Ted Kennedy helping immigrants. In addition, I agree with most of his political views, he seemed like a good Senator. After learning of his death, I felt we had lost a great man. I added one of his biographies to my Amazon [...] -
Django CSRF Migration
Like many of you, I am migrating all my Django sites to Django 1.2.1. For sites that are currently in production, I am doing the slow migration route. Just trying to get the site up with 1.2 without using any of the new features yet. One thing that I ran into is the new CSRF [...] -
Jacob Kaplan-Moss on DevOps
Jacob gave a talk at the Boston Django Meetup this month on the topic of DevOps — The role of the developer and the role of sysadmin are merging, and it is a good thing. This idea certainly resonate with me. I started my career as a DevOps by necessity — I worked with a [...] -
Django South Explained
Posted my tutorial on using Django south, the database migration tool, over at DjangoPro. Check it out! -
Upgrading to Django 1.3?
Should you upgrade to Django 1.3? Upgrade any web framework in your application in general? Try this decision chart here http://www.djangopro.com/2011/03/should-i-upgrade-to-django-1-3/: -
Amazed at Django
I spent this weekend working on a new portal site for which I had the idea a couple of days ago (yeah, I know — weekends are for something else; but it was absolutely freezing cold here in Germany, so I succumbed to my inner geek). I’m building the site using the Python Web framework [...] -
New Django installation
I just got a new machine, with x64 processor (Pentium D Dual Core — nice machine!) and naturally it’s already running Linux. SUSE 10, to be specific. Now I wanted to move my Django project over from the old machine and the Django installation kept failing. The setup.py told me: Installed /home/tietze/temp/Django-0.91 Because this distribution was installed [...] -
Python class at Master in Free Software 09/10
Last Friday I gave an introduction to Python as class in Master in Free Software. In this session I tried to cover Python from the very basics to decorators, properties and PDB. All covered only as an overview, not in deep detail. After the introduction we did a simple PyGTK application to list the files [...] -
Going to GUADEC
One more year, Igalia will give me the chance and the pleasure to attend GUADEC one more year, this time in Den Haag. My fellow Igalians Iago, Alejandro Piñeiro and José Dapena will give talks about Grilo, Cally and Modest 4, respectively. As for me, I’m hoping my lightening talk about Text Prediction on GNOME [...] -
Apologies to Django Community
I have my blog syndicated in Django Community since a while now and I’ve always respected Django Community’s rules by only having Django related posts appearing there, that is, by making good use of the Django category/filter have syndicated there. Today, I’ve realized that many of my posts unrelated to Django have appeared in Django [...] -
Going to FOSDEM!
… and also, this year I giving two presentations there. I’m presenting OCRFeeder in the GNOME DevRoom and SeriesFinale in the Embedded/Mobile DevRoom! I just love FOSDEM, the spirit of it, the number of important Open Source projects in there and the city of Brussels! If you wanna have a chat about OCRFeeder, SeriesFinale, Hildon [...] -
FOSDEM 2011 and GNOME Foundation
That’s right, once again I could count on Igalia‘s kind support to be able to go to this great conference one more year. Just like last year, I’m giving two presentations: * Making the printed world accessible: A11y in OCRFeeder, in the Accessibility DevRoom on Saturday at 11:00; * Grilo: Integration of Multimedia Contents in [...] -
Django book completed. Congrats to Adrian and Jacob!
Jacob Kaplan-Moss posted to his blog yesterday that the Django book (Pro Django. Web Development Done Right) is completed and is now going off to the printers. He writes: “It should start shipping to bookstores around the second week of December.”This is great news! It’s great news for the Django platform — it’s a true [...] -
Inspiration for a RentaCoder listing
An interesting (well, to me anyway) tangent to my recent post about GetAFreelancer. While looking through my Google Analytics report, I just found a number of referrals from rentacoder.com. Looking further, I find that someone had been looking for a developer for build a solution for “Video Blogging using Django and Flash(tm) Video (FLV)”.If this [...] -
English version of trogger travel portal launched!
I just launched the English language version of my Django-powered travel portal, trogger.de. The newly-launched English version is at trogger.info. For those who haven’t yet checked out trogger, trogger is a travel-oriented Web community site, where users can maintain travel blogs, post travel reports, share holiday insider tips and publish photo albums. The most recent extension [...] -
Cited in Bangalore - How cool is that?
As Pradeep just pointed out in my Blog comments, he used parts of my posting on video blogging with Django (which is funnily enough always referenced as “Create your own YouTube site” - a claim I wouldn’t have dared make myself ) as basis/inspiration for a presentation at Bar Camp Bangalore. BarCamp describes [...] -
Video Blogging using Django and Flash(tm) Video (FLV)
I just added Flash-based (FLV) video blogging support to my Django-powered travel portal site, trogger.de. The whole process is surprisingly simple and straightforward and can be done entirely with free (FLOSS) tools. The video publishing workflow consists of the following parts: A Django model to store our video and associated information An upload form where the user can [...] -
New travel portal opened: trogger.de
German-language travel site trogger.de opens. -
Django Framework
Django is a Python web application framework. It's been developed and used over the past 2 years to run a number of online news sites such as lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. It has recently been made available under a BSD license and already a community is building around it. It seems to be focused on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY principle.Looks like Adrian Holavity and Jacob Kaplan-Moss are the guys behind it.Update: From the FAQ, the other Django developers are Simon Willison (whose weblog I've been reading for a long time) and Wilson Miner. -
Exhedra: a conferencing/forum application in Django
I've recently started some development on the Exhedra project (a conferencing/forum application) using Django. For anyone reading this post on SDJournal, the posts from this category are also syndicated on the Django Community page. Rather than clutter up that page with multiple posts about this project I've set up a separate weblog to cover it. -
Django IRC logs to the rescue
The 2nd Django tutorial starts with getting the admin interface up and running by creating an initial user account and using the built in development web server. However, after following the instructions quite closely I was still getting Tried all URL patterns but didn't find a match for /admin when requesting the admin URL. A search of the IRC logs for #django revealed that for it to work the settings module must be set to .admin so if you're using myproject.settings.main for the working with the model in the first tutorial you'll need --settings=myproject.settings.admin. -
Suggesting tags with django-taggit and jQuery UI
One of the problems mentioned by a couple people when I asked for suggestions on improving djangosnippets.org was the proliferation of tags. This is a well-known problem on sites that allow users to enter their own tags, where misspellings are frequent and its sometimes unclear whether a tag should be plural or singular. To try and reduce the amount of different tags on djangosnippets I ended up using the jQuery UI autocomplete tools to provide users with hints when they enter tags for their snippets. How it works There are two components, a view that returns JSON based on the partial tag that the user has typed in, and some JavaScript that fetches the results and updates the input element. The jQuery autocomplete stuff is a little opaque and seems well-designed for the simple case but when it comes to extending it the docs weren't very helpful. I looked at Nathan Borror's autocomplete helper for some of the ideas on extending the default functionality. The view is pretty straightforward. It takes the incoming request and peels off the query, then filters the database of Tags for those matching the query adding a "count" of how many snippets are using that … -
Is there a market for paid Django apps?
Here's a thought that's been rummaging around in my brain for some time now: is there a market for commercial, closed-source Django apps? Suppose someone released a high-quality, well-documented, well-supported Django app… under a commercial license. Assume of course that this app does something you actually need, and that the commercial license isn't odious. Would you pay for a Django app? I think I would. I have no qualms about paying for good software: in the last month I bought some backup software (Arq), started using a commercial ticket tracker (Pivotal) and time tracker (Freckle). In all cases, free/libre alternatives existed, but the paid versions were easier, slicker, faster, or in some sense "better." Enough so that they justified their prices (to me). I think if Haystack (to pick an arbitrary example) was commercial (and reasonably priced) I'd pay for it — the time required to build an alternative would almost certainly cost me more. On the other hand, there's also a definite anti-capitalist vein in the open source community. It waxes and wanes, and different sub-communities exhibit the trend more than others, but there's always a certain resistance to paying for software. Most of us understand that "libre"" is … -
Announcing django-easyfilters (with some heresy on the side)
Announcing django-easyfilters, a new library for Django, and a bit of heretical editorial about Django's ORM. -
Is there a market for paid Django apps?
Here’s a thought that’s been rummaging around in my brain for some time now: is there a market for commercial, closed-source Django apps? Suppose someone released a high-quality, well-documented, well-supported Django app… under a commercial license. Assume of course that this app does something you actually need, and that the commercial license isn’t odious. Would you pay for a Django app? I think I would. I have no qualms about paying for good software: in the last month I bought some backup software (Arq), started using a commercial ticket tracker (Pivotal) and time tracker (Freckle).
