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- Setting up the new ‘staticfiles’ app on Django 1.3
Even if I’ve been using Django 1.3 for a while now, I’ve been holding off on some of it new features, such as the new way to handle static files via a new app called (guess what) staticfiles . Essentially, what the new static app does is allowing you to leave all static files within […]
- Django B_project available on gitHub
I’ve put together and shared on gitHub all the files needed to get started with a Django project – essentially this is a clean file structure usable to get going with a Django project nice and easy. The idea is that after downloading this, you just have to change a couple of names (see the […]
- DJFacet: a faceted browser for Django
DJFacet is a pluggable module for the Django web application framework that allows you to navigate the data in your webapp using an approach based on ‘facets’. DJFacet relies entirely on the django models you’ve already defined within your project and on a configuration file where you can create the facets and assign them behaviour. […]
- Python links (and more) 7/2/11
This post contains just a collection of various interesting things I ran into in the last couple of weeks… they’re organized into three categories: pythonic links, events and conferences, and new online tools. Hope you’ll find something of interest! Pythonic stuff: Epidoc Epydoc is a handy tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based […]
- Setting up Django Registration
Django’s admin framework includes the basic functionalities for logging in and out of the admin site, but if you’re building a so-called ‘social’ application and want people to be able to sign-up, log in and thus benefit from additional site functionalities then you need to use a more generic ‘registration’ application. The good news is: […]
- Preloading stuff in django’s interactive shell
Django’s shell is a fantastic way to interact with all the components of your django application, eg when testing new functionalities or debugging a nasty error. Sometimes though you end up loading the same variables or importing the same modules every time you run the shell , for example because you are trying out a […]
- Trying out Django-cms
I tried installing django-cms, an open-source project from Switzerland’s company Divio. It is a content management system based on the web framework Django and is written in Python. Among the interesting features of DjangoCms (besides the fact that it is based on django, which I happen to have fun with in most of my programming […]
- The power of django’s Q objects
I’ve been spending some time today doing research on how to best use django’s Q objects. Then I did a bit of testing myself and decided to put this whole thing together for future’s sake, you know, for the time when I’ll find myself lost and in need some coding recipe. First things first: the […]
- DjangoCon Europe 2010
DjangoCon returned for its second year in Europe; the first as a wholly community-supported conference. The conference website contains a lot of info and interesting links (even an iPhone app), but in my opinion the coolest thing is the freely available videos of the conference! >>>
- Django debug toolbar
Django Debug Toolbar 0.8 from Idan Gazit on Vimeo. This is just an amazingly useful application you might want to add to your django development tools. Installation is a breeze: $ easy_install django-debug-toolbar … Then you need to add some parameters to your settings.py, as explained here. It’s likely that you don’t want the debug-toolbar […]