December 23, 2008 |
django, screencast |
6 comments
Satchmo is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like ZenCart and OSCommerce, Satchmo’s ease of customization make it a joy to work with.
Unfortunately, all the features can make the administration interface a bit daunting at first glance. I created a screencast to help shop owners get started with the process of adding products and product variations in Satchmo. I’m using the latest release as of this writing (0.8.1).
In the process of prepping Gondola CMS for public consumption, we’ve grown from having a developer (me), to having a development team. One pain point that quickly arose was the amount of time it took for new developers to setup a local development environment. In addition to our source code, the project depends on nearly a dozen other Django apps and Python packages. Initially, we simply tracked the requirements in a text file, but it required a lot of manual work to get them downloaded and installed.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Of course, this problem has been tackled many, many times before1. As I looked into what was out there, my first thought was that most of the existing options were far too complex for our needs. If I didn’t grok a system after clicking around the docs for 10 minutes or so, I moved ...
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Pete, 3 weeks ago
Troubleshooting OpenID is just like user/password. Except you have 5 of them and and you don't know which one is failing, and 3 login pages
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