Django Best Practices
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 easy …
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Open Source Government
While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative, recovery.org, I noticed something of interest.
<script type="text/javascript"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, { "basePath": "/" });//--><!]]></script>
Wow, this can’t be true. Can it?
$ curl -I http://www.recovery.gov
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Date: …
Satchmo Screencast
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 …
Simple & Easy Deployment with Fabric and Virtualenv
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 …
On Static Media and Django
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, however, I’ve come …
Serving Django Projects (Revisited)
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 downfalls: …
Introduction to Gondola
Gondola is our content management system built on top of Django. I briefly showed it off during my DjangoCon Lightning Talk, but have been wanting to give it a proper screencast for a while. Here’s an introduction:
A few common …
My Lightning Talk from DjangoCon 2008
DjangoCon was an amazing conference all around. I met some great people and learned a lot. I also had the opportunity to get up on stage and present some of the things I’ve been working on here. I was really …
Managing Django Projects on Your Server with Style
This article is outdated, you’ll find an updated article here.
A friend is in the process of setting up a new slice at everbody’s favorite VPS provider Slicehost and asked for some advice. I use MySQL, Nginx & Apache/mod_wsgi on …
Building a Community Site with Django in 40 Hours or Less
All the recent hub bub about 1 week and 1 day application development, motivated me to see how quickly I could launch a website for myself. I, like many developers, struggle with building and releasing personal sites. Ask a web …