Packt Publishing was nice enough to send us a copy of
Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman
for review recently. I get most of my technical information via the web, so picking up a technical book was a nice …
In
part 1
, we showed how we use
Fabric
to update and deploy Django sites to our development server with a single command. This works great when you only have one developer pushing changes to the server, but what …
We’re firm believers in the practices described by the
Continuous Integration
method of software engineering. Among those are:
Maintain a code repository
Automate the build
Automate deployment
We use git for our code repositories and
Fabric
to automate our build/deployment …
Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk,
Using Django in Non-Standard Ways
(
slides in
) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (
tornadoweb.org
), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django …
Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at
EuroDjangoCon
about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the admin customizations we had done on
Gondola
, I had a bunch of people get in touch with me asking …
This post got a bit long-winded,
skip to the project announcment
if you prefer.
One of the things I love about Python and Django is the philosophy that
there is one obvious way to do things
. Standards make it …
Satchmo
is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like ZenCart and
OSC
ommerce, Satchmo’s ease of customization make it a joy to work with.
Unfortunately, all the features can …
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 …
We all know not to serve static media (images,
CSS
, Javascript, etc.) in production directly from Django. Thankfully, Django gives us some nice settings like
MEDIA
_URL
and
MEDIA
_ROOT
to make serving them a lot less painless. Lately, …
After reading the comments on
my last post on the subject
, I realized there was definitely some room for improvement in my strategy. This is take two of the original post.
Problems
My original strategy had a couple of …