- ARCHIVE / September, 2009
- Using jquery’s autocomplete in django admin: how about inlines?
I still haven’t solved this problem entirely, and I’ll tell you why. Well the issue has been addressed by many, and among them probably the first and most influential solution is Jannis Leidel’s ‘An autocomplete form widget for ForeignKey model fields’. Leidel says: [..] my question is, if this could be done on a more […]
- Project: django SOCLONE
Just wanted to flag up SO-Clone, an interesting project on googleCode that wants to replicate the fundamental functionalities of Stack Overflow. If you’d like to run a site like Stack Overflow, for example on your company’s intranet for internal use by developers, keep an eye on this project, which aims to implement a Stack Overflow-like site […]
- Using Django-MPTT: lessons learned…
Here we are again with Django and MPTT 0.3 (I already have other posts about it). After working with it for a bit I realized that things were breaking mysteriously, and only recently understood why that happened, so I thought I’d share this pearl of wisdom. Essentially this has to do with the way tree-elements […]
- Learning iPhone development while sitting on your couch
I guess this is just part of the huge e-learning revolution happening in our century.. what I’m referring to is that through ITunesU – a sort of university-centered section of iTunes that delivers podcasts/videocasts – you can learn an incredible amount of stuff from the top-teachers in the world. Free of charge, anywhere, anytime. I […]
- Weird ‘example.com’ urls appearing on my django site…
It all started when I added the get_absolute_url method on my model objects: # includes a mysterious example.com ????? @models.permalink def get_absolute_url(self): return (‘person_detail’, [str(self.id)]) When you do that, the admin site automatically picks it up and adds some nice ‘view on site’ buttons on all of your individual object pages…: The problem is, the […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
