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Category: Django

Posted in: Django  —  6 August 2010
Participating in any Open Source project can be frustrating if things do not move along as quickly as you would like. Django is a fairly popular project, whose developers are volunteers with limited resources, and with a pretty big commitment to stability and backwards compatibility, so there will always be people who get frustrated. This blog post is intended to help people in that situation be helpful, and to not actually make things worse.
Posted in: Django, Python  —  2 January 2010
How I set up Eclipse to work with an existing project using virtualenv
Posted in: Django, Haskell, Python, Web development  —  9 November 2009
Based on my recent Haskell experience, I highlight some cases where I think static type checks provide a better testing mechanism than unit tests or other automated tests.
Posted in: Django, Python, Web development  —  3 March 2009
A review of "Django 1.0 Template Development" by Scott Newman, from Packt Publishing.
Posted in: Django, Python, Web development  —  22 January 2009
An article from Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman, about how to output a document in multiple formats/styles using Django templates.
Posted in: Django, Haskell, Web development  —  4 November 2008
Beginnings of a Django-inspired Haskell web framework, Ella.
Posted in: Django, Python, Software development  —  31 July 2008
A simple way to use Mercurial Queues in a Subversion working directory to manage patches before committing to Subversion.
Posted in: Django, Python, Web development  —  8 July 2008
After reading that in Python 2.5 some big memory leaks are fixed, I just switched a Django site from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5. I wasn't disappointed -- the combined memory usage of my Apache processes (which are using mod_python) went from 100Mb to 60Mb. So, for anyone else wanted to conserve memory, this is the first thing I'd suggest!
Posted in: Django, Python, Web development  —  24 June 2008
Posted in: Christianity, Django, Python, Software projects, Web development  —  1 April 2008
I created a system and web app to help me organise my Bible memorisation. And I rant a bit Django and web.py.
Posted in: Django, Python, Web development  —  25 March 2008
How to use Twill within Django unit tests
Posted in: Django, Python, Web development  —  28 December 2007
I present below some example code for using Django, newforms and MochiKit to do AJAX validation, in case anyone else is doing the same, complete with a live demo...
Posted in: Django, Web development  —  5 November 2007
I've updated my validator app to work with 'unicodised' Django...
Posted in: Django, Python, Software projects, Web development  —  18 April 2007
I've updated my validator app to latest Django trunk and finally done a release.
Posted in: CCIW, Django, Python, Software development, Web development  —  19 June 2006
An attempt to debunk some of the '20 minute web app' hype that is so prevalent at the moment, and present a more realistic and balanced account of the Django site I have just finished.
Posted in: Django  —  6 June 2006
Saw this gem by 'anonymous' on django-updates...
Posted in: Django, Python, Software development  —  2 May 2006
I've noticed in Python and in Django I almost always create a module or a template by starting with a completely empty file, and typing...
Posted in: Django, Python  —  28 April 2006
Using pychecker and pylint on Django -- and each other...
Posted in: Django, Python, Web development  —  25 March 2006
Here is a not-too-awful hack to make the admin give different 'add/change' forms depending on who is using it.
Posted in: Django, KDE, Software development  —  11 March 2006
Ever been refactoring code or HTML templates and wanted to compare two chunks of text? This is what you need if you use KDE...