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 happens …
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 PDF) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (tornadoweb.org), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django ORM inside Tornado. The …
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 me …
I’ve always disliked the way named anchors (<a href="#name">...</a>) behave in browsers. It jumps your viewport to a different part of the page, but it’s rarely obvious which section you have landed on. If the page is long enough, the …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
