Django community: RSS
This page, updated regularly, aggregates Community blog posts from the Django community.
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Back underway...
Following an extended hiatus the project is back in full time development. Once again the work is being done by ThoughtWorks. In addition we've engaged the services of Amsterdam based Total Identity to provide identity, look and feel and similar things for the launch. On the back end work has started on getting a production ready server set-up in place for the application. -
Django - Magic-Removal Upgrade
I've just upgraded Django to the new Magic-Removal code base which is now a part of the core Django distribution. I broke a few things (such as the Photo Gallery) for a few days while I ironed out a few little bugs, but all seems OK now. Soon enough I'll make available all my blog code as the tutorials published here are now basically useless due to the sweeping changes made by Magic-Removal. If anybody can suggest an easy way for me to package up my Django code to make it easily usable for others, I'd love to hear it :) I might also pull out some text from previous blog entries on using Django's contrib.comments and put them in their own article as that seems to be what's attracted a number of people to this site. -
Django - Magic-Removal Upgrade
I've just upgraded Django to the new Magic-Removal code base which is now a part of the core Django distribution. I broke a few things (such as the Photo Gallery) for a few days while I ironed out a few little bugs, but all seems OK now. Soon enough I'll … -
Google Trends – Ruby vs Python
Let a new round of flame wars begin! Google Trends – Ruby vs Python Interesting that Ruby wasn’t even on the map until early 2005. Gee, I wonder why. :-) -
Migration to magic-removal
Today I converted three web sites to the latest Django's trunk formerly known as the magic-removal branch. It was a very positive experience in general. New Database API with lazy database queries (courtesy of QuerySet) rocks! Direct interaction with model classes allows doing a lot of things much simpler than it was before. A lot of small improvements, which makes a big difference like explicit template extensions (use whatever is appropriate for your content), more transparent new Admin inner class, natural overriding of model methods (no more _pre_save() and _post_save() hooks!), and, of course, no more pluralization guessing.I encountered exactly three small problems during the conversion:RemovingTheMagic is a formidable encyclopedia of changes but it is difficult to use it as a cheatsheet for the conversion, because it is not organized by functional areas, and requires modifying files in several passes. I filed an enhancement ticket #1786.I had small problems modifying users and groups after the conversion. Instead of change screeens I started to get 404 pages without any helpful traces. I had to regenerate permission tables. An enhancement ticket #1787 shows how I did that.I found get_list_or_404() being less flexible than before. I used to pass in "__ne" and "order_by" … -
CZ: Video z Googlu o historii a vlastnostech Djanga
Letošního jara se událo hodně věcí okolo Django frameworku. Jednou z nich je konečně publikované video z Google TechTalks (26.4.2006) o přednášce od Jacoba - jednoho z core vývojářů Djanga. Ač video má něco přes 1 hodinu, doporučuji shlédnout alespoň kus. Je prostě vidět, že to tihle borci berou s humorem :) -
Greenpeace at Google
About eleven minutes and thirty seconds into his talk on Django to Google Django creator Jason Kaplan Moss talks about Melt. So it's nice to get noticed. As a more general update we're planning to get back to work on Melt this month, with a target of getting the first public site up next month. During our recent downtime we've been gratified to see Google adding more data to their Google maps, so that the system makes much more sense now when you're looking at results in Europe. -
Greenpeace at Google
About eleven minutes and thirty seconds into his talk on Django to Google Django creator Jason Kaplan Moss talks about Melt. So it's nice to get noticed. As a more general update we're planning to get back to work on Melt this month, with a target of getting the first public site up next month. During our recent downtime we've been gratified to see Google adding more data to their Google maps, so that the system makes much more sense now when you're looking at results in Europe. -
Django propaganda
Some Django propaganda: Video killed the radio star The talk I gave last week at Google is now up on Google Video. I covered similar ground to what Adrian talked about at Snakes and Rubies so if you haven’t seen that one, watch it, too. Django for non-programmers My friend and colleague Jeff Croft launched his new website built with Django. Jeff has followed it up the launch with an introduction to Django for non-programmers that’s required reading for anything thinking about switching to Django. -
Google Summer of Code 2006
Yes, another Google SoC is upon us. I signed up as a mentor with Dojo and Django. Both projects are on the leading edge of new wave of web-based applications doing extremely cool stuff. I anticipate that some smart students will bridge both projects, but individual projects are fine too.What is Google SoC? Read the FAQ. Who can apply? Any student anywhere in the world can apply. You don't have to be Comp. Sci. major to participate. Why should I apply? You will gain a real world experience with open source projects on the bleeding edge of modern technology. Your code will be used by high profile projects (it will look spiffy on your resume). You will meet new people who "do it" instead of "talk about it". And you will earn $4,500 USD and a cool T-shirt as a proof of your participation.We already started evaluating incoming proposals. You have to submit your proposal before 17:00 PDT on May 8, 2006.Now some tips:You should "see" what you are going to do:Some sketch of general design will be very helpful.Outline of your timeline (conforming to SoC timeline) would be good too.It's okay, if you still need to fill the gaps … -
Using Dot Notation for writing DSLs
""" This is all valid syntax in my shiny new domain specific language, implemented in Python. >>> put("jason").into.element.named("username") >>> put("jason").into.element.labeled("username") >>> put("jason").into.element.identified.by("username") ...or... [...] -
Housekeeping
It seems that this blog has started to attract a bit of comment spam and a lot of trackback spam. I've deleted it all (apologies if any genuine comments have gone by accident), and added authentication requests onto the commenting features using TypeKey. I think I'm just going to have to turn off the trackback feature until I have more time to look into this. If anyone can recommend a good moveable type compatible service for captcha tests that would be great - seems preferable to asking people to get a username / password. -
Housekeeping
It seems that this blog has started to attract a bit of comment spam and a lot of trackback spam. I've deleted it all (apologies if any genuine comments have gone by accident), and added authentication requests onto the commenting features using TypeKey. I think I'm just going to have to turn off the trackback feature until I have more time to look into this. If anyone can recommend a good moveable type compatible service for captcha tests that would be great - seems preferable to asking people to get a username / password. -
Stockphoto 0.1 released
I've decided to release version 0.1 of stockphoto under the GPL. Stockphoto is a simple photo gallery application for django. ... -
Stockphoto 0.1 released
I've decided to release version 0.1 of stockphoto under the GPL. Stockphoto is a simple photo gallery application for django. ... -
Some django gotchas
These are some django details I've found while working on my django demonstration site, things that are useful for making ... -
Some django gotchas
These are some django details I've found while working on my django demonstration site, things that are useful for making ... -
A complete waste of time
Inspired by Online News Squared, and with my sincerest apologies to Adrian, I give you chicagomime.user.js (requires Firefox and Greasemonkey). -
A very useful patch to django
The photo gallery application I'm working with allows you to upload batches of photographs as zip files, to populate a ... -
A very useful patch to django
The photo gallery application I'm working with allows you to upload batches of photographs as zip files, to populate a ... -
Django meetup in Palo Alto
Update Ack – I mistyped the date on this page! The meetup will be Thursday, April 27th (not Wednesday as this originally said). Hopefully that still works for anyone planning to come… Later this month, I’m speaking at the MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara, and I’ll be in town the whole week. I suspect there’s a good number of Django users living in the Bay Area (ha), and I’d like to meet as many of them as I can. -
Merquery
Brian Beck just announced that he’s beginning work on Merquery, a full-text indexer and search engine specifically designed for developers using RAD frameworks like Django. I’m so excited about this I can barely contain myself. Right now Ellington ships with a search engine built on top of Swish-E. It’s pretty cool, and I’ve been debating cleaning it up and rolling it into django.contrib. However it has a number of major flaws that limit its usefulness: -
Quiet Enjoyment
I just found this reading through the Amazon Web Services license: EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AMAZON DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF ANY COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. (emphasis mine). -
Free server? Probably not
As the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. A few weeks ago I applied for Sun’s Niagra try-before-you-buy program hoping to get a chance to benchmark how a Django stack behaves on one of those bad boys. Unfortunatly, it appears the hype is better than the follow-through. I applied as an individual, and after about two weeks got a call from a guy at Sun wanting a credit card to pre-authorize for the entire value of the server. -
Love/Hate
Every day that I spend messing with python and django, I learn something new or find simpler ways of doing things than I've done them in the past. Tonight I've been experimenting with Django's templating language. I've been building my tag libraries to augment the django's general purpose templating language and data filters for a while now, but today I started really poking around its eqivalent of ObjectGraphNotationLanguage. The stuff I'm doing is really going to change the way we build stuff at work. At the same time, there are a lot of nasty annoyances/bugs/oversights that are hard to believe. Still, for development it kicks Java J2EE ass any day. I joke at work that django either rocks or sucks depending on whether it is an odd or even hour. It's almost 4 am now, so I guess I should turn in while it still rocks. Post to Del.icio.us
